Brave browser blocks Windows feature that takes screenshots of everything you do on your PC
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Do you consider any form of telemetry "spyware"?
Honestly it largely is.
Personally I like sharing crash reports, but even then, the user should be able to turn that off if you like.
Telemetry should be 100% opt-in.
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I mean Mozilla's Firefox is 🤮 too... there's no perfect browser
nothing is perfect, except the horseshoe crab. however both librewolf and cromite are great with ublock, and ltsc windows has no copilot since companies use that edition.
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Do you consider any form of telemetry "spyware"?
how the hell do you not?
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All I have to say is I hope this catches on with other browsers.
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Switching to Linux made me like computers again. Switching to Hyprland made me love computers again.
Hyprland made me suicidal again but we are all different
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I care a lot about rendering engine diversity, and Firefox is the largest non-chromium browser, so I use it. It's fast enough for me, and my handful of extensions gives me what I need.
Again, good for you.
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What feature? Recall?? That's Windows 11-specific and hasn't even launched yet??
The joke is that Linux blocks this by not doing it at all. Which is why people should switch to Linux. Which is a good idea. But that's up to the people.
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Sure, so? It's still opt-in, and by default it sends the generated crypto money to creators and websites you visit
If you don't like it, don't enable it? They're pretty transparent about how it works overall
They have pretty much abandoned this feature anyways
wrote last edited by [email protected]It's opt-in for now, how many times do we have to play this game?
I'll keep using Firefox with uBo to actually block ads instead of a browser that's running its own ad delivery system.
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Do you consider any form of telemetry "spyware"?
I don't think taking screenshots of everything you do every few seconds is telemetry.
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It's opt-in for now, how many times do we have to play this game?
I'll keep using Firefox with uBo to actually block ads instead of a browser that's running its own ad delivery system.
Brave has a built in ad blocker
at this point you're just hating on brave for nothing
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nothing is perfect, except the horseshoe crab. however both librewolf and cromite are great with ublock, and ltsc windows has no copilot since companies use that edition.
Librewolf is too restrictive and not suitable for everyday browsing. I hate it.
never tested cromite
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It doesn't tick #3, hence why I use a Firefox browser as my main. If they had their own rendering engine, I would consider it as my main. But for now, it's my backup in case I need a website that doesn't work on Firefox (i.e. they use something Chrome-specific).
Valid point then. We need compatibility with gecko, I always found it better looking than chromium
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I don't think taking screenshots of everything you do every few seconds is telemetry.
It's not, but it's also not spyware - it's local, encrypted, AND optional.
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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?
I worry that the prevalence of ill-informed hot-takes dilutes the validity of complaints, and I appreciate your work here
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Honestly it largely is.
Personally I like sharing crash reports, but even then, the user should be able to turn that off if you like.
Telemetry should be 100% opt-in.
Honestly it largely is.
I mean, by definition, it isn't.
It's anonymous and not malicious in nature. It's a diagnostic and engagement measuring tool.
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how the hell do you not?
I don't know, maybe because I understand the definition of "spyware" and "telemetry"?
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It's not, but it's also not spyware - it's local, encrypted, AND optional.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Microsoft is known for making things “optional” at first then eventually forcing it down everyone’s throats. Removing offline accounts is one of them.
It’s not so much the technology itself is malware, but its behavior replicates that of malware.
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No way they'd do that though, because then they'd have the mouse and the other members of the content mafia breathing down their necks.
It's an image every few seconds. Not that piracy is currently even interested in tech that reencodes the content.
And for training, copyrighted stuff is already everywhere; AI tools seem to be limited on the output side rather than raw training data. -
Do you consider any form of telemetry "spyware"?
You consider actual, literal spyware as being merely telemetry?
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It's an image every few seconds. Not that piracy is currently even interested in tech that reencodes the content.
And for training, copyrighted stuff is already everywhere; AI tools seem to be limited on the output side rather than raw training data.wrote last edited by [email protected]Sure it wouldnt be rational to care about DRM being broken a small amount allowing limited amount of copyright material to be copied.
What do you think their response would be?
