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Brave blocks Microsoft Recall by default

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290 points XzetaU8 | 9 comments | 23 Jul 25 09:33 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source | bottom
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delichon ◴[23 Jul 25 11:29 UTC] No.44657972[source]▶
> We tell the operating system that every Brave tab is ‘private’, so Recall never captures it.

Without this loophole Recall could take pix of password managers and other such sensitive windows. So it doesn't seem closeable without per app exceptions.

But privacy is a bug on a school laptop used by a child. Brave could have a toggle on the feature if it wants to serve that market.

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1. fidotron ◴[23 Jul 25 11:43 UTC] No.44658083[source]▶
> But privacy is a bug on a school laptop used by a child.

What you're going to learn is how many people that think like this consider you to be in the same position as the child.

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2. delichon ◴[23 Jul 25 12:13 UTC] No.44658324[source]▶

  "The whole principle (censorship) is wrong; it's like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can't eat steak.”  ― Robert A. Heinlein
The opposite is true too. Infants shouldn't be handed knives because grown men need to cut their steak.
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3. CamperBob2 ◴[23 Jul 25 12:44 UTC] No.44658598[source]▶
It's more like, "Only licensed chefs need pointy knives, so the logical thing to do is ban pointy knives for everyone else."
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4. fidotron ◴[23 Jul 25 12:48 UTC] No.44658630{3}[source]▶
https://www.forbes.com/sites/ianmorris/2019/03/14/yes-a-poli...
5. teddyh ◴[23 Jul 25 13:38 UTC] No.44659124{3}[source]▶
Cigarette lighters and matches would probably be banned, or at least heavily restricted, if smoking had never been a thing.
6. vorpalhex ◴[23 Jul 25 13:41 UTC] No.44659162[source]▶
Having passed a toddler a steak knife, it's fine. There are even practice knifes for this purpose.

(An infants hands are too small to hold a steak knife)

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7. dartharva ◴[23 Jul 25 14:55 UTC] No.44659906[source]▶
If we were to seriously take that advice, children wouldn't have access to laptops in the first pace, let alone "school" ones.
8. Nevermark ◴[23 Jul 25 15:37 UTC] No.44660434{3}[source]▶
> Having passed a toddler a steak knife, it's fine.

That time. With that child. I don't think "a steak knife per toddler" is a scalable value proposition.

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9. vorpalhex ◴[23 Jul 25 23:02 UTC] No.44664948{4}[source]▶
I disagree. Most children (including toddlers) can be taught quickly to safely handle even "scary knives" and controlled exposure to real tools with real consequences is actually high value.

You can also give infants who are ready for food meat and other real foods, just keep in mind the lack of teeth.