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New Windows AI feature records everything you’ve done on your PC (arstechnica.com)

submitted 4 months ago by boem@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] r00ty@kbin.life 20 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Well the malware authors of yore could have gotten away with it, so long as they attached their malware to an even slightly useful program, added an EULA that was 40 pages long and on one of those pages mentioned the malware and had no way to use the software without agreement.

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 20 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Wasn't that basically Bonzi Buddy and whatever software bundled it without any options to opt out? 😆

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 19 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The activities the program is said to engage in include constantly resetting the user's web browser homepage to bonzi.com without the user's permission, prompting and tracking various information about the user, installing a toolbar, and serving advertisements

Looks to me like they taught Microsoft well in this area.

[–] pipe01@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Ain't no way bonzi.com redirects to a fucking nft

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 1 points 4 months ago

Kinda on brand though somehow.