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Brave blocks Microsoft Recall by default

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290 points XzetaU8 | 1 comments | 23 Jul 25 09:33 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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LooseMarmoset ◴[23 Jul 25 11:21 UTC] No.44657920[source]▶
Who, exactly, is clamoring for Recall in the first place?

And who is to say that Microsoft will honor the toggle, “for analytic and performance metric” purposes?

EDIT: the rant above shouldn’t cast aspersions on Brave, good on them for trying.

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firesteelrain ◴[23 Jul 25 11:23 UTC] No.44657932[source]▶
It seems it enables Copilot to assist the user in finding things on their PC.

Somehow find . -iname has worked for years in Linux without AI

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crinkly ◴[23 Jul 25 11:39 UTC] No.44658055[source]▶
They are where I put them. Never used a search function once like this.

Perhaps it’s because I lived in the days before search was even a thing.

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mattmanser ◴[23 Jul 25 13:08 UTC] No.44658812[source]▶
Be glad you've gone through life without having a partner or friend that just puts everything on the desktop.

And then complains to you all their files have disappeared.

Usually it's because they've run out of diskspace and windows has created a temporary profile for them (which is crazy default behaviour when you think about it). Not sure if that's still a thing.

Of course they just closed the popup saying "you're running low on diskspace" last week. After all, what are they supposed to do about that?

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1. crinkly ◴[23 Jul 25 13:17 UTC] No.44658911{3}[source]▶
I was married to someone for over 20 years who did that. She got told to stop doing it at work as well years ago because it took 40 minutes to copy her profile on login/logout.