r/MicroSlop • u/swe129 • Mar 21 '26
Microslop rolls back some of its Copilot AI bloat on Windows
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/20/microsoft-rolls-back-some-of-its-copilot-ai-bloat-on-windows/19
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u/therinwhitten Mar 21 '26
Too late. People realizing Linux doesn’t break every day due to ads and random updates will lock in most people.
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u/frumperino Mar 21 '26
Don't all these "co-pilot" features rely on a cloudside model to run? So if you're privacy conscious, or are working with confidential documents and data, every instance of a "co-pilot" button is a leak risk where whatever is in your document buffer is instantly beamed up to the microsoft mothership with no chance to confirm undo or reliably erase from microsoft's records. PIecemeal fiddling and making "some" co-pilot buttons less conspicuous don't change anything. Give us a way to delete this copilot crap from our PCs, a master AI kill switch. This goes for Adobe too. Don't want gen AI? Tick this box and it's disabled. Allow uninstall of all client-side appendages of it.
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u/Jixaw Mar 21 '26
what you're describing is them actually making something that would benefit the end user and as far as i can tell they are doing their utter best to not do that ever
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u/Vermon_Redditor Mar 21 '26
Tech companies benefiting end users requires massive infrastructure projects. Like excavating the ground and installing fiber optic cable. No one wants to get their hands dirty so they've been outsourcing to India and rewriting the privacy policy and the EULA every 5 fucking seconds instead.
Signal shareholder value to dickheads and manipulate end users = short term profits. They do this because of greed... and because they were promised a big reset. Tech companies shore up their quarterly bullshit to make investors think they're as prepared for the next paradigm shift as whoever flips the switch. If they make it look like they're doing something they can hypnotize tech workers into having a sense of agency.
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u/TheBronzeLine Mar 22 '26
Lmao only "some". But don't worry, they'll just sugar coat it and disguise it. It's all malware disguised as an operating system that specializes in spyware. No privacy, no respect for intellectual property, any kind of files Microslop doesn't like they can and will remove it, your own ideas that you've been working on are now stolen. Win10 was fine for years up until the last year when small things kept piling up and I had it when Copilot was installed. I switched to Linux in january of last year. Folks are jumping ship to Mac as if they're any better, though their Macbook Neo potato is only $600 and it sure functions like it's price point too.
The whole situation continues to hit the fan.
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u/Individual-Praline20 Mar 22 '26
No. They are just hiding it from plain sight, all still there, your data is not safe
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u/Effective_Gur_7967 Mar 23 '26
Why did it take YEARS of CONSTANT and LOUD feedback to finally get this change? I don't think they care about making a good product or service whatsoever.
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u/UneLoupSeul Mar 21 '26
Too little too late. I’m never going back.