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

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 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.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Kinda on brand though somehow.