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Brave blocks Microsoft Recall by default

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290 points XzetaU8 | 3 comments | 23 Jul 25 09:33 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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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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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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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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1. 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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2. fidotron ◴[23 Jul 25 12:48 UTC] No.44658630[source]▶
https://www.forbes.com/sites/ianmorris/2019/03/14/yes-a-poli...
3. teddyh ◴[23 Jul 25 13:38 UTC] No.44659124[source]▶
Cigarette lighters and matches would probably be banned, or at least heavily restricted, if smoking had never been a thing.