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It has been over a decade that big tech has been playing this script: * Introduce a feature that is abysmal for user privacy * Promise it's okay because $reas
by 63stack 11mo ago
It has been over a decade that big tech has been playing this script:
* Introduce a feature that is abysmal for user privacy
* Promise it's okay because $reasons
* Make the feature opt-out
* Change the EULA so that $reasons are no longer applicable/valid
* Roll out an update that "accidentally" turns the feature back on for everyone
* Apologize, deny, divert, deflect
* Siphon off all that sweet sweet user data
Rinse and repeat. Get away with it every time. People still go "oh I don't see the problem, they said $reasons". This time "it's stored locally". Until it won't.
- kccqzy 11mo agoYou are merely objecting to Microsoft being the developer behind Recall. Great I don't fault you for that. But now consider hypothetically what if the Linux Foundation developed and announced Recall?
- 63stack 11mo agoThe linux foundation would introduce this is an optional thing you can download, with documentation on how it works, and where you can find the source. Within 3 days the community would make self hosted servers for it. They are not known for siphoning user data through dark patterns, so there is nothing to object from me. If they were to try it the same underhanded way as microsoft, I'd be just as much against it.
- kccqzy 11mo agoThat's exactly what I would think too in this thought experiment. So Recall itself isn't the problem; it's the way Microsoft built it. I am personally still in fact waiting for a reputable organization to build it.