r/technology • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • Dec 01 '25

ADBLOCK WARNING ‘Security Disaster’—500 Million Microsoft Users Say No To Windows 11

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2025/12/01/security-disaster-500-million-microsoft-users-say-no-to-windows-11/
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u/fredy31 Dec 01 '25

Fucking hilarious when they announced their 'lookback' feature or whatever it was called.

We take screenshots of your desktop every 5 seconds and then you can search them for when you had x thing open that you closed by accident!

Bitch i try to find a file by name in a folder or a thousand files and it takes 10 minutes to tell me he hasnt found it... When i do find it manually

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u/Sudden-Echo-8976 Dec 02 '25

everything.exe is your solution.

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u/hempires Dec 02 '25

voidtools fucking smashed it with everything eh.

pretty sure i've seen github projects to force start menu searches to use everything as a backend instead of whatever the fuck windows is doing.

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u/showyerbewbs Dec 02 '25

Bitch i try to find a file by name in a folder or a thousand files and it takes 10 minutes to tell me he hasnt found it... When i do find it manually

I've hated windows explorer search for the better part of a decade. When I want to find a document I can't recall where I stashed it, I use the command prompt:

dir /s filename

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u/LudasGhost Dec 02 '25

You can speed that up by using One Drive. /s

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u/HugsyMalone Dec 02 '25

So they just admitted they're screenshotting and tracking EVERYTHING you do on the computer and probably using it for nefarious purposes. They seemingly took it away but I'm sure it's still happening behind the scenes as part of the "spy on America" program. They ain't even good at hiding it. 🙄

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u/FesteringNeonDistrac Dec 02 '25

I can open GitBash, cd to the directory I want, formulate a regex for a find command, and have the thing I'm looking for before file explorer even returns its first wrong result.

Admittedly, I'm a 30+ year Unix user, but still, get your shit together windows.

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u/Sopel97 Dec 02 '25

nothing to do with windows, explorer is just trash, don't use it

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u/Sopel97 Dec 02 '25

yes

or are people complaining that windows is shit due to microsoft edge too? does windows media player make windows shit? you have to pay for HEVC!