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Re:Microsoft's Recall AI feature is now indefinitely delayed by red_admiral on Friday June 14, 2024 @04:37PM (#40684859)
Which is fine because the browser has a private browsing mode, and the shell has the space trick (for example if a tool requires an SSH key as a command-line argument) as well as various "pinentry" things.

You'd need some API for applications to signal to Recall "the user has requested not to save this", and then every single program with a password input box would have to update to call this.

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Re:Microsoft's Recall AI feature is now indefinitely delayed by vineyardmike on Saturday June 15, 2024 @12:43AM (#40687573)
> "the user has requested not to save this"

Yea it has stuff for these use cases.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/privacy-and-cont...

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Re:Microsoft's Recall AI feature is now indefinitely delayed by ozzcer on Saturday June 15, 2024 @06:26AM (#40688796)
All the important controls here have to be done by the user. You really think the average user is going to blacklist things in the awful settings app?
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Re:Microsoft's Recall AI feature is now indefinitely delayed by chollida1 on Saturday June 15, 2024 @08:01AM (#40689238)
what could the OS do to "blacklist" things on its own?

How would the OS have any chance of knowing I don't want my programming session recorded if I don't' tell it?

How would google chrome know to go to incognito mode if I don't tell it?

Of course the burden for this is on the user, what other way could possibly work?

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