• webghost0101@sopuli.xyz
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    6 months ago

    Its only partly local and i bet only because the alternative is to expensive.

    Just look at the kinda crap windows pulls today.

    I thought i had disabled pretty much all the spyware, them on the microsoft online dashboard i found

    • full machine specs
    • A list off all applications installed
    • edge search history

    Btw, did you know that anything typed in start/search now counts as a search in edge? I wander whats behind that move.

    In other words i understand much of the ai may function on a local level but it be fully integrated with cloud systems and you can safely assume a full record of your prompts and uses is stored on microsoft servers and delivered to bill gates for reading before bed.

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      6 months ago

      full machine specs

      just fyi, every website you visit has access to this, it’s not private

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        6 months ago

        Depends on your browser extensions, you can even pretend to be a phone if you want. ;)

        And also not the same level of detail as microsoft is just lifting from your hardware like motherboard model and manufacturer, how many drives, how they are formatted and how much space is used on each of em.

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      6 months ago

      Btw, did you know that anything typed in start/search now counts as a search in edge? I wander whats behind that move.

      It searches for everything you search so that by the time you press enter, it already has the result of the last one, hence seeming faster.

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        6 months ago

        What i meant is, what good reason is there for local search to always count as a Bing internet search.

        If i wanted to look up something online id open up an internet browser with the search engine of my preference.

        Spamming my local search results with online rubbish is the opposite of value, even micrsoft devs acnowledge this which is why microsoft powertoys has macbook style local searchbar thats way faster and better at finding your files and offline.

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          6 months ago

          Well, it does search online too. That the implementation is atrocious is a different thing.