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Yes.

"To use Recall, you will need to opt-in to saving snapshots, which are images of your activity, and enroll in Windows Hello to confirm your presence so only you can access your snapshots."



I understand people not liking Recall. I'm one of them. But for something that is opt in now and even if opt later can still be disabled. So changing OS's because of that seems like an overreaction.


It's the straw that breaks the camel's back I think for most people.

Constant nagging by the operating system for Windows products (I have enabled onedrive personally, but for some reason it installed two file explorer quick access links, and the workarounds online fail to persist reboots) -- hijacking file extensions, hijacking program aliases (I just had to remove a windows store alias in my env variables for "python" despite having it already installed months prior), the constant cat and mouse to have local account-only possible, inability to remove edge/stop being pestered about it, and now recall (which is not truely opt-in since it gets installed whether you want it or not).


the crutch is that an update could silently re-enable it, in a way that you aren't notified, and it'd be too late to try disable after it captured content off your machine you didnt want captured.


Oh, good. Local activities that used to be anonymous and private are now public with non-repudiation.


What's public here?




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