If Recall went through, so much for “it’s all localized and offline.”
I understand its (currently) not happening, but if Microsoft was able to deflect the criticism long enough, and since no company makes a change like this overnight (The time to approve of the privacy policies, shifting of storage for it, the increased traffic on their servers needing to be accommodated), can you imagine just having it still installed and enabled by default?
It’ll happen. Microsoft is just waiting to see how much backlash they get, then in a future version its all gonna be enabled by default. “Because people want it! Its the best!”
Well, now I’m gonna start never installing Windows 11 even harder.
You can stall it without a ms account and only a local account. You need Rufus to create a new usb stick. https://rufus.ie
I used Rufus alright. To create a Linux installation drive. I then realised how good Linux has gotten and I have been using it as my daily driver ever since.
Fuck Microsoft and their increasingly frequent habit of abusing their dominant position on the market to force undesirable features down their user’s throats.
It’s happened so many times now that these tech news articles have gotten into a habit of including a paragraph on “how to turn off the latest stupid thing Microsoft pushed onto Windows”, because they know people keep looking for these answers.
Isn’t that data theft or something? I know the legal situation for
usersvictims in the US is generally bleak, but uploading private data without consent must be something that should have consequences even in the land of the free businesses.Something something you agreed to it in the ToS that you could only read buffalo buffalo buffalo after buying the product which is as legally binding as an IOU written in crayon but they’re rich and your not so get fucked.
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I run ReviOS on my media box mini PCs…definitely better that vanilla windows
