Now it’s kinda redundant to say, but Microsoft is obviously spying on us. It’s terrifying that they’re doing this to us Firefox users. I wonder how they found out that I’m using stackoverflow. Are they constantly sniffing our network traffic, or monitoring each texts displayed on the screen?
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.
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.
“Generic” you say !
when Copilot first came out I gave it a go, I asked it to tell me a joke, and it spit out this : what do you call a user who uses Firefox, Bitwarden, ProtonVPN ?.. A Microsoft Edge-case [ laughing emoji ] 😅
After that I went on a debate with Copilot, to it, it seemed weird that a user would skip over Edge ( which the best browser ) and go for Firefox or any other browser, I Explained to it that this is my preference, and I explained it’s not cool to assume that all users would settle for Edge simply because you put it there and they should be able to uninstall it, to my surprise it said “Yes they should be able to”, however it struggled to understand the concept of Privacy, wait, it doesn’t understand it at all, when I asked how do you know what a regular Windows user uses, in order for me to be a special case, it went crazy, started searching online, reassuring me that it doesn’t has access to my personal data, that it doesn’t have statistics on Windows users… Etc
That felt so cringy to say the least, and all that happened in less than 7 questions ( you’re allowed for 10 questions before you have to sign in )
I think they built that from the ground up to be a spying machine, they’re basically improving their spying capabilities with each release 🙂👍
So maybe it’s generic, but I don’t expect that to be the case in the upcoming releases
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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?
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
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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.
Yeah, windows and privacy don’t exactly get along
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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.
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.
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
I use AnonymousOverflow, works better than StackOverflow in my opinion, and it removes all ads, tracking and scripts. works with stackexchange too
It’s unrelated to StackOverflow or Firefox I’m pretty sure, I got it too randomly.
What version of Windows?
Looks like Windows 11 to me but I am unsure. Mostly using Arch Linux except when gaming in VR.
With big companies using AI this should not come as a big surprise. Would uBlock Origin, and clearing cookies help against this though ?
I tried it at work, it is completely useless and getting worse every day
