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[–] nik282000@lemmy.ca 2 points 12 hours ago

This feature is completely optional and is never turned on by default.

AI desktops sound like a privacy nightmare but right in the article they say, it's not the default. Every time MS adds another shitware feature there is lots of warning, like this, and there is time for concerned users to find work arounds or jump ship to a more sane OS. We need less clickbait titles and more "how do we work around it" because MS doens't care about users needs or concerns only increasing revenue.

[–] 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 17 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 15 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 14 hours ago

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

[–] hcf@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

OH MY GOD MICROSOFT, WHO FUCKING ASKED?!

[–] salacious_coaster 7 points 23 hours ago

Microsoft's shareholders, obviously.

[–] DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 day ago

Another reason on the pile - or more specifically an inflation of an existing reason - to not "upgrade". Thanks for making the choice even easier, Microscum