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Boy does that ever make my skin crawl.
I didn't like it when it was a Microsoft product, and even as an open-source one do I ever not want an app collating everything about me, where I go, what I look at, and who I talk to into a single database.
Especially since they don't talk about how they secure the local data; this is just making a one-stop shop for someone to steal and then learn absolutely everything there is to know about you.
Yup. This is how you create a single point of failure when it comes to privacy.
I keep looking at all this data collection stuff and wonder if I'm actually crazy to be bothered by it, especially given that I'm totally not a privacy extremist.
Maybe I'm one of the people that doesn't feel the need to constantly go back to figure out what I did a week ago or whatever, and thus all I'm seeing is a tool that knows more about me than I do, and then puts all that data in a single place that is now the prime target for every malicious actor on the planet.
I used to find stuff like this fascinating. Like if collecting my data can help me, why not? But technology has gotten to a point that it's just straight up creepy how our every single waking moment can be tracked and collected, even if it's me collecting it. It's like watching every dystopian sci-fi story come to life in real time.
the dystopian scifi story has always been reallife. better get used to it kid... cuz yer in one
I very specifically want an app that collates all the information that can possibly be gathered about me in a way that I can utilize and abuse it myself. For me there is a lot of utility and value to be found with this sort of thing.
Of course the security posture of said app needs to be rather robust. And instead of it being an app it should instead be an SDK that I can then choose and control my own storage medium for.
Fair, and that's why this should be opt-in: I have absolutely no use case in my life for this that I'm not already meeting elsewhere but I know I'm certainly not everyone.
I don't begrudge other people using it, I would just very much prefer to not use it or, in the case of what Microsoft tried to pull, be shoveled into using it by default-enabling it and then likely nagging you endlessly if you dare to turn it off, like they do with everything else in Windows these days.
They don't because they don't
Probably because this is still in early alpha and "the schema is still changing".