Correct link to the article.<p>@Dang - is it possible to update the URL please?<p><a href="https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/windows-11/microsoft-has-lost-trust-with-its-users-windows-recall-is-the-last-straw" rel="nofollow">https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/windows-11/micr...</a>
> droves of people are proclaiming they will proudly switch to Linux or Mac in the wake of it<p>Citation needed. What kind of rag is this? The entire article is full of falsifiable claims without any links to surveys or any sort of data. They have screenshots of tweets or whatever, but that's essentially useless.<p>I am absolutely not defending Microsoft's moronic behavior here, but I have a hard time believing the VAST majority of Windows users have even heard of Recall, much less are concerned about it, and even fewer would have the wherewithal to even <i>be able</i> to switch.
> On paper, it's a cool idea.<p>To me, even on paper it's a terrible idea. I never want this, ever, or anything like it. I imagine this hypothetical paper as just having the words "your computer is now a way to create a vector describing your buying characteristics" and there's a big circle drawn around it, and all the Ss have been turned into dollar signs.
We launched a FOSS alternative two days ago OpenRecall <a href="https://github.com/openrecall/openrecall">https://github.com/openrecall/openrecall</a> we're fleshing out the roadmap to build a more privacy-friendly/auditable/secure alternative that is not dependent on OS or specific hardware
As much as I think this is bad i doubt it makes much of a difference for the enterprises that buy microsoft. It's mostly journalists and devs complaining about it, not the people with the money and that make decisions.