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[-] PirateFrog@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The worst thing about it is, even if you switch to Linux for privacy yourself, you'll also need your friends to switch as well, otherwise if you message them on their desktop, they're a liability, as the damn recall will be there too, leaking your data.

It'll be hell for activists.

[-] Blemgo@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Funnily enough, Signal has circumvented the issue by marking their chat window as DRM content, making it invisible to Recall.

[-] FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 1 points 1 month ago

They didn’t circumvent the issue - they did what Microsoft tell developers to do in regards to their programs and recall lol.

[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

The same has been true of email for years, but less bad. Activists will need to be even more careful in who they trust.

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[-] absquatulate@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

Of course it is. It's invasive by design. The "recent tweaks" were because of backlash, but now that's died down

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[-] Angular2575@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 month ago

What I don't understand, is what I would need and use it for? Never in my life I thought "damn if only I had a screen recording of everything I did 1 week, 1 month or 1 year ago". Like I don't get the use case, ignoring anything else. There is no use case.

I can view my terminal history and my recently accessed files. I have version control with git where I want and need it.

There is no use case.

[-] FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 2 points 1 month ago

So you’ve never wanted to find an article/headline that you vaguely remember seeing? Or a product that you looked at? Or a picture that you looked at?

There absolutely is a use case for full reachability of everything you’ve done on your computer. Git commits and terminal history and “recent” files list don’t even come close to providing the same thing lol

[-] Ydna@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

It's true that there's some usefulness in recollection, but geez I find myself digging through my browser history and being absolutely lost... whether it's an article, video, online store product, anything. Then I usually just re-search for whatever it was from scratch 🤷‍♂️

[-] plumbercraic@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 month ago
[-] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago

Yes.

Worth it.

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[-] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 6 points 1 month ago

Um, the core feature is privacy invasion. It does what it says on the tin.

It's fine if some people want that functionality, as long as it's not enabled by default.

[-] Zagorath@aussie.zone 2 points 1 month ago

One could argue that it's a feature that could be done on-client without sending to a server. Or with its server component doing nothing more than syncing with E2E encryption.

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[-] illorenz@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Another great reason to switch to Linux. Fuck this shit

[-] FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 3 points 1 month ago

This is just a thinly veiled ad for AdGuard.

[-] xavier666@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

If only we could have a response from an independent security researcher instead of a product, that would be great.

[-] Draegur@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Part of why i knew so-called "digital rights management" was fucking bullshit was because very little software ever came out that empowered me to manage MY OWN rights in the digital space.

I need there to be FOSS applications that allow me to root-level BLOCK applications from perceiving what I'm doing, to just fucking SANDBOX ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING BY DEFAULT and let me whitelist what specific things are allowed to directly access the hardware.

Sadly I am not as tech savvy as I used to think I was. I might've been technologically clever twenty years ago but I hadn't managed to keep up... I think what I've described might be referred to as a "hypervisor"? And I'm told it's an overbearing, clumsy, heavy-handed overkill measure that would be difficult to implement and make everything a pain in the ass to do. So ... shit, man, I dunno... i'm just so damn tired of my hardware being bossed around by people I didn't authorize.

[-] Quazatron@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Maybe it's time you invested some time in finding alternatives that let you stay in control of said hardware. I know time is in short supply for all of us, so consider your priorities.

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[-] joel_feila@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

For windows users

[-] JigglySackles@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I've disabled windows update completely so I can pick and manually dl updates. Never going to put that recall shit on my pc.

[-] PushButton@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I've disabled Windows completely so I can be safe and sound. Never going to put that shit on my PC.

-- sorry, it seemed funnier in my head.

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[-] tarknassus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

To the surprise of nobody… 😆

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