Alaknar

It's actually super simple: even though the community is called "Technology", there's A LOT of tech-illiterate fear mongering going on here. People behave like Microsoft is trying to spy on them, seemingly oblivious to the fact that Recall is:

• only available on devices with an NPU.
• local only, nothing goes out to the Internet (hence the NPU requirement).
• opt-in - you need to turn it on yourself.

There's nothing malicious about it. Functionality is questionable, but acting like it's malware is just showing ignorance.

So, you're saying that browsing history, in literally any browser on the market, is a bug not a feature?

surreptitiously

Oh, wait, I actually missed that! How is something that you need to purposefully turn on "surreptitious"? Like... Holy fuck, people, this is supposed to be the community of tech-literate people, so maybe stop fear-mongering in read about Recall a bit? It's opt-in, it's limited to a (as of now) extremely small number of NPU-carrying devices, it's offline.

If you don't like it, just don't fucking turn it on.

"Just like Mozilla".

Let's compare.

Mozilla: installed a closed-source plugin once, and then apologised for it.

Brave CEO: actively supports homophobic organisations, donates money to them, injects affiliate links to stores, whenever given a microphone will say something bigoted and homophobic.

Yeah, it's totally the same exact issue with both browsers!

Holy shit, what a comment!

This is about the Smart App Control

It's not, it's about Recall.

that takes screenshots periodically to check for “malicious activity”

It doesn't. Smar App Control does code validation and reputation check. Recall makes screenshots, OCR's them and keeps them in an encrypted vault for the user to interact with.

built into the OS

It's not, you can turn both off at any time.

its basically a glorified keylogger

It's not, it fundamentally is NOT, because it doesn't log any keystrokes. SAC isn't even in the picture here, while Recall literally only makes screenshots, runs OCR and encrypts that.

Fuck me, where do you people get this bullshit from? It used to be "oh no, Microsoft will be making screenshots of your activity and sending them to their servers" not so long ago which, while still bullshit, was at least in the same ballpark as what Recall does.

Now you're throwing SAC into the mix somehow?

You’re brainwashed. Election boycotts are a tried and true method

Depending on the voting mechanism and scale.

Have you read the article you linked, Mr. Super Not Brainwashed?

That only works in two scenarios:

1. The voting system doesn't punish non-voters (calculation based on the number of eligible voters, not valid votes).
2. The protest is performed on such a massive scale, that the entire election is voided (usually below 50% turnout).

There was NOWHERE NEAR enough interest from US voters for anybody sane to have any hope of the latter happening, and the US system doesn't give a fuck about people abstaining.

Election boycott is the offside trap of the election system - if it works, it works, if it doesn't you just gave the opponent a massive advantage.

Conspiracies become reality...

That’s not tribalism. That’s “they’re the same picture”

Suggesting I like one of them is tribalism, mate.

before you go cheerleading for one over the other

See? You're doing it again. I guess you're incapable of not being childish like that, so it's EOT from me.