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Brave blocks Microsoft Recall by default

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290 points XzetaU8 | 2 comments | 23 Jul 25 09:33 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | 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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1. dotancohen ◴[23 Jul 25 13:25 UTC] No.44658992[source]▶
I often ask myself, where _would_ I put such a thing. Rarely do I have to check more than two or three directories before finding the document I'm looking for, when I pretend that I'm looking for a place to file it now.
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2. pixl97 ◴[23 Jul 25 13:59 UTC] No.44659319[source]▶
I'm wondering if you're either a savant or just have very few documents?

The more documents you have, the more likely you are to have strict classifications. The stricter the classifications the more likely you are to run into something like Russell's paradox.