Sure, so? It's still opt-in, and by default it sends the generated crypto money to creators and websites you visit

If you don't like it, don't enable it? They're pretty transparent about how it works overall

They have pretty much abandoned this feature anyways

Do you consider any form of telemetry "spyware"?

It's opt-in for now, how many times do we have to play this game?

I'll keep using Firefox with uBo to actually block ads instead of a browser that's running its own ad delivery system.

nothing is perfect, except the horseshoe crab. however both librewolf and cromite are great with ublock, and ltsc windows has no copilot since companies use that edition.

It doesn't tick #3, hence why I use a Firefox browser as my main. If they had their own rendering engine, I would consider it as my main. But for now, it's my backup in case I need a website that doesn't work on Firefox (i.e. they use something Chrome-specific).

I don't think taking screenshots of everything you do every few seconds is telemetry.

Holy shit, what a comment!

This is about the Smart App Control

It's not, it's about Recall.

that takes screenshots periodically to check for “malicious activity”

It doesn't. Smar App Control does code validation and reputation check. Recall makes screenshots, OCR's them and keeps them in an encrypted vault for the user to interact with.

built into the OS

It's not, you can turn both off at any time.

its basically a glorified keylogger

It's not, it fundamentally is NOT, because it doesn't log any keystrokes. SAC isn't even in the picture here, while Recall literally only makes screenshots, runs OCR and encrypts that.

Fuck me, where do you people get this bullshit from? It used to be "oh no, Microsoft will be making screenshots of your activity and sending them to their servers" not so long ago which, while still bullshit, was at least in the same ballpark as what Recall does.

Now you're throwing SAC into the mix somehow?

Honestly it largely is.

Personally I like sharing crash reports, but even then, the user should be able to turn that off if you like.

Telemetry should be 100% opt-in.

how the hell do you not?

It's not, but it's also not spyware - it's local, encrypted, AND optional.

No way they'd do that though, because then they'd have the mouse and the other members of the content mafia breathing down their necks.

Do you consider any form of telemetry "spyware"?

It's an image every few seconds. Not that piracy is currently even interested in tech that reencodes the content.
And for training, copyrighted stuff is already everywhere; AI tools seem to be limited on the output side rather than raw training data.

In this thread something I see a lot on lemmy is happening. Maybe someone can give me a hint on how that happens. The post itself is 90% upvotes, while the comment section is really anti-Brave (for good reasons). Do most upvotes come from people scrolling through without looking at the comment section and those with an opinion on the topic dive into it?

Switching to Hannah Montana Linux made me hear The Best of Both Worlds again.

Honestly it largely is.

I mean, by definition, it isn't.

It's anonymous and not malicious in nature. It's a diagnostic and engagement measuring tool.

The post itself is reasonable quality and informative so I find it upvote worthy. If a post is low quality or a shit post then I downvote.

To me the karma system is about quality. Not an "I agree/disagree" button.

For comments I only down vote obvious trolls, bigots/racism etc.

Librewolf is too restrictive and not suitable for everyday browsing. I hate it.

never tested cromite

The fact that the dev behind brave is a homophobe isn't opt in though...