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The company is reducing Copilot entry points on Windows, starting with Photos, Widgets, Notepad, and other apps.

Archived version: https://archive.is/newest/https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/20/microsoft-rolls-back-some-of-its-copilot-ai-bloat-on-windows/

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[–] Monstrosity@lemmy.today 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Considering it's a closed source, proprietary system, you sure seem confident about the 'local only not spying ' thing.

[–] terabyterex@lemmy.world -2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

use wireshark. there are many ways to monitor traffic

[–] Monstrosity@lemmy.today 10 points 3 months ago

I hear you, but it's no secret Windows sends telemetry data back to the Mother Ship, so how can you distinguish whether or not that includes Recall data?

[–] tracelr402@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

one of the only things this sort of AI is good at is summarizing, so it could be distilling your most sensitive info down into a brief but juicy dossier that it actually sends encrypted to microsoft. Or it could only send when specific content like political dissidence is detected. Wireshark solves nothing