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Surely it's opt in anyway, seeing as you need some special wanky laptop with a magical AI bollocks chip for it to work.
"We won't turn it on and will never use it to spy on you" says government backed surveillance monopoly know for sneaking spyware into products and making it impossible to remove.
How do you "fix" the security issues of a program that is literally designed to spy on you?
I've just switched to Linux Mint and I'm not ever coming back. That's how I "fixed it."
Opt-in but you get an annoying full screen popup every boot, like for the windows11 upgrade. It's only a matter of time, til they sell AI recall features as Win12 and then beg you to upgrade for free, pretty please!
Or "(totally unrelated feature) is not available unless you activate AI recall. Click here to activate."
"Click cancel if you do not want to not activate it"
Trust is difficult to earn and easy to lose.
When did they earn it last time?
XP was made stable to counter Linux, it wasn't something like trying to earn trust IMO.
"Make it opt-in" (for 6 months) At this point, Microsoft is the biggest advisement for Linux desktop
They'll always play right on or just over the line to see when/how people push back. They knew what they were doing, they started at a 9 intentionally so that people push back to and live with a 7
I mean... Yeah? That's kind of the point isn't it? Test the waters and figure out just how far they can push it? Find the limit of acceptance and ride that?
MS really has always done this, what's the name for this kind of marketing maneuver? Manufactured consent? Manufactured begrudging tolerance?
Like politics, were adding 200% to this inconvenience!
Then rolling back to "only" 50% (the initial target).
Rather than not install it to begin with. Leeches
It feels like these huge ass companies are just testing people's reactions before they do something these days.
Pretty sure they already said it would be opt-in. This is just planned damage control. The fools have already shown their hand. Again.
I heard it was opt-out originally, but I haven't looked into it tbh
