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Windows 11 to add an AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders, warns of security risk (www.windowslatest.com)

submitted 1 day ago by recursive_recursion@piefed.ca to c/privacy@lemmy.ca

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[–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Fucking hell I'm glad I switched to Linux for my desktop. If I could only convince the rest of my family.

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 5 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Challenge them to watch 10 YouTube videos or browse 10 websites on their machine vs your machine. Then ask them to save the YouTube video as an .mp3 file.

It's always horrifying when I start up a default Edge browser and load literally any webpage. Popover frames, video and audio ads that autoplay, floating ad windows. They'll all technically have the ability to close them as long as you can touch the 3 pixel wide X button that is directly over the ad so mis-clicking loads a different web page or starts the Windows Store or some other nonsense.

[–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I was going to say "it's okay, at least I installed an ad blocker." But I remembered that Google disabled that shit on all Chrome based browsers including Edge.

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago

Yeah, manifestv3 killed anything but the most basic ad blocking.