Microsoft has a history of making opt in features silently opt out during updates. I wouldn't mind except they've lost my trust with how the manage features.
Yeah, I agree that such a feature definitely does have its uses.
HOWEVER... that is a feature that you specifically purposely chose and then made active on your machine. That's NOT a feature that your OS pushed on you over and over and all you had to do was not remember to turn it off every month when it re-enabled itself. Because that's how Windows features like this have been implemented for the last several years.
First it will be optional, then it will be mandatory for some cases (in China, in Trump's US), then it will be mandatory in some companies, so the AI can watch employees, do accurate reports about their day to day activities, then it will mandatory for everyone (for security reason, ensuring you don't work on harmful things, because knowing what you do is important for Microsoft to know what to improve, to sell you ads based on your activity)...
In case of doubt, remember that Microsoft assholes sold a feature in Office 365 To report to boss users activity, like number of email typed, time on keyboard, looking at email in outlook, ...
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[ 6.4 ms ] story [ 26.8 ms ] threadI have my own thing that captures all text that has ever come across any of my terminal sessions and it's been invaluable.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43660914
“That groan you hear is users' reaction to Recall going back into Windows” (arstechnica.com)
100 points | cratermoon | 18 hours ago | 106 comments
HOWEVER... that is a feature that you specifically purposely chose and then made active on your machine. That's NOT a feature that your OS pushed on you over and over and all you had to do was not remember to turn it off every month when it re-enabled itself. Because that's how Windows features like this have been implemented for the last several years.
In case of doubt, remember that Microsoft assholes sold a feature in Office 365 To report to boss users activity, like number of email typed, time on keyboard, looking at email in outlook, ...