• ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de
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    10 months ago

    It stopped working when I uninstalled Edge, and so did the face recognition. So it depends on WebView or some shit. Pretty sure it’s Microsoft’s way of getting around the new EU regulations and hastily integrating the browser into everything, regardless of it making sense or improving security. like they did with 98 after the browser anti-competitiveness lawsuit.

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      10 months ago

      Wtf. It shouldn’t even need those permissions. All it needs to do is scan if the fingerprint it stores matches you.

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        10 months ago

        Oh sweet summer child. No. That would have been the intelligent approach. It could have been fast and secure but it wouldn’t have had all that delicious telemetry nor taken another step towards charging you rent just to use your computer.

        They locked it behind two online services. Welcome to the new Microsoft. If it doesn’t include charging you rent or using you & your private information to train a large ai model. They don’t care.

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      10 months ago

      hastily integrating the browser into everything, regardless of it making sense

      So software development in general in the last couple of years?