Brave blocks Microsoft Recall by default
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Re: Brave blocks Microsoft Recall by default
#2I'm curious about the last paragraph relating to Signal. How, exactly, have Brave managed this without also blocking screenshots? Is there a flag Signal missed?
Re: Brave blocks Microsoft Recall by default
#3Who, exactly, is clamoring for Recall in the first place?
And who is to say that Microsoft will honor the toggle, “for analytic and performance metric” purposes?
EDIT: the rant above shouldn’t cast aspersions on Brave, good on them for trying.
Re: Brave blocks Microsoft Recall by default
#4I'm curious about the last paragraph relating to Signal. How, exactly, have Brave managed this without also blocking screenshots? Is there a flag Signal missed?
According to the same paragraph, it's because Signal isn't a "browser app":
> Given that Windows doesn’t let non-browser apps granularly disable Recall, Signal cleverly uses the DRM flag on their app to disable all screenshots.
(emphasis mine)
Apparently, Microsoft consider browsers special:
> While it’s heartening that Microsoft recognizes that Web browsers are especially privacy-sensitive applications, we hope they offer the same granular ability to turn off Recall to all privacy-minded application developers.
Re: Brave blocks Microsoft Recall by default
#5I'm curious about the last paragraph relating to Signal. How, exactly, have Brave managed this without also blocking screenshots? Is there a flag Signal missed?
Microsoft specifically allows software in the category “browsers” to disable Recall.
Re: Brave blocks Microsoft Recall by default
#6Who, exactly, is clamoring for Recall in the first place? And who is to say that Microsoft will honor the toggle, “for analytic and performance metric” purposes? EDIT: the rant above shouldn’t cast aspersions on Brave, good on them for trying.
It seems it enables Copilot to assist the user in finding things on their PC.
Somehow find . -iname has worked for years in Linux without AI
Re: Brave blocks Microsoft Recall by default
#7Interestingly, the linked Recall docs[1] mention a way to filter apps and/or websites from being saved; however:
> This setting applies only to Enterprise and Education editions of Windows.
That limitation looks extremely impractical.
[1]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/client-management/...
Re: Brave blocks Microsoft Recall by default
#8Who, exactly, is clamoring for Recall in the first place? And who is to say that Microsoft will honor the toggle, “for analytic and performance metric” purposes? EDIT: the rant above shouldn’t cast aspersions on Brave, good on them for trying.
I think it’s a cool and potentially useful feature as long as it stays local.
Re: Brave blocks Microsoft Recall by default
#9I'm curious about the last paragraph relating to Signal. How, exactly, have Brave managed this without also blocking screenshots? Is there a flag Signal missed?
Microsoft specifically allows software in the category “browsers” to disable Recall.
How is this category defined? Can an app resister itself as a browser?
Re: Brave blocks Microsoft Recall by default
#10Who, exactly, is clamoring for Recall in the first place? And who is to say that Microsoft will honor the toggle, “for analytic and performance metric” purposes? EDIT: the rant above shouldn’t cast aspersions on Brave, good on them for trying.
> Who, exactly, is clamoring for Recall in the first place?
I'm not clamoring for any Microsoft software for the last two decades, but the idea itself is interesting, like being able to catalog and look back at what I did at specific times in the past, or be able to query "What was the website where I saw X at?", would have been useful just last week for me when I was trying to find some document I read but didn't bookmark/download.
But I'd probably trust BP to not spill oil into our oceans again over Microsoft not having security/data leak issues.