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[–] Angular2575@lemmy.ml 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

What I don't understand, is what I would need and use it for? Never in my life I thought "damn if only I had a screen recording of everything I did 1 week, 1 month or 1 year ago". Like I don't get the use case, ignoring anything else. There is no use case.

I can view my terminal history and my recently accessed files. I have version control with git where I want and need it.

There is no use case.

[–] FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

So you’ve never wanted to find an article/headline that you vaguely remember seeing? Or a product that you looked at? Or a picture that you looked at?

There absolutely is a use case for full reachability of everything you’ve done on your computer. Git commits and terminal history and “recent” files list don’t even come close to providing the same thing lol

[–] Ydna@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

It's true that there's some usefulness in recollection, but geez I find myself digging through my browser history and being absolutely lost... whether it's an article, video, online store product, anything. Then I usually just re-search for whatever it was from scratch 🤷‍♂️

[–] illorenz@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

Another great reason to switch to Linux. Fuck this shit

[–] FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

This is just a thinly veiled ad for AdGuard.

[–] xavier666@lemm.ee 1 points 5 days ago

If only we could have a response from an independent security researcher instead of a product, that would be great.

[–] absquatulate@lemmy.world 79 points 1 week ago (46 children)

Of course it is. It's invasive by design. The "recent tweaks" were because of backlash, but now that's died down

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[–] PirateFrog@lemmy.dbzer0.com 77 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

The worst thing about it is, even if you switch to Linux for privacy yourself, you'll also need your friends to switch as well, otherwise if you message them on their desktop, they're a liability, as the damn recall will be there too, leaking your data.

It'll be hell for activists.

[–] Blemgo@lemmy.world 49 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

Funnily enough, Signal has circumvented the issue by marking their chat window as DRM content, making it invisible to Recall.

They used the invasion of privacy to destroy the invasion of privacy?

[–] FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 1 points 6 days ago

They didn’t circumvent the issue - they did what Microsoft tell developers to do in regards to their programs and recall lol.

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[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 47 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Um, the core feature is privacy invasion. It does what it says on the tin.

It's fine if some people want that functionality, as long as it's not enabled by default.

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