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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
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Do you have an Mozilla account? Both, Stack Overflow and Mozilla send user data to Google. It is the ring to rule them all.
No my firefox is not signed in, and I don’t think Google will send the data to Microsoft.
I use AnonymousOverflow, works better than StackOverflow in my opinion, and it removes all ads, tracking and scripts. works with stackexchange too
https://github.com/httpjamesm/AnonymousOverflow
With big companies using AI this should not come as a big surprise. Would uBlock Origin, and clearing cookies help against this though ?
Yeah, windows and privacy don’t exactly get along
It’s unrelated to StackOverflow or Firefox I’m pretty sure, I got it too randomly.
I tried it at work, it is completely useless and getting worse every day
It’s funny because AI often lies, it’s good to create some kind of code that you can fix and adapt, but you always need to see what the AI is generating. Because then happens things like this:
https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/pull/7915#issuecomment-2027825825
AI did some shitty code changes claiming to optimize a function a 54% faster.
“https://codeflash.ai” creating junk pull requests with AI…
About the spyware, I suppose we all know about this, and even if you install a Linux and use an unGoogled smartphone, your guests devices (your family or friends that come to your home) are running them and scanning your network. Spyware everywhere.
This notification looks generic to me, TBH. It’s probably not related to your usage of StackOverflow. Maybe Microsoft just detected that you’re using your browser and displayed that ad to remind you of their shitty product.
This would be the worstest timing for it to be shown if it’s just a coincidence
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It’s very likely not related at all. Had a client last week also start getting these popups and asked for a GPO to stop them. This is just a MS marketing campaign for copilot, lol.
I’m lost on this. What is the connection between Stack Overflow and Copilot? From the outside, that’s just the notification that Microsoft is pushing to all windows users, regardless of what they’re doing.
“Ask real questions. Get complete bullshit”
What version of Windows?
Looks like Windows 11 to me but I am unsure. Mostly using Arch Linux except when gaming in VR.
on a serious note: you’re using their O.S. I don’t even know the depths of what they can collect about your usage.
Is there really anything they couldn’t collect?
nah, they can collect every data they want. I just don’t know how creative they can be when collecting.
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Honestly, fuck Microsoft, I fucking hate their user abusive practices, but I feel like that would be illegal to some degree or at least actionable and some sort of way.
Do you have any evidence that they are collecting that much data in telemetry?
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They’re doing it with chrome users if I’m not mistaken, making popups to use Bing. There was even an apology as the popups were supposed to only be shown once instead of constantly if I’m not mistaken