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Brave browser blocks Windows feature that takes screenshots of everything you do on your PC (www.neowin.net)
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[–] 35 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

Microsoft is known for making things “optional” at first then eventually forcing it down everyone’s throats. Removing offline accounts is one of them.

It’s not so much the technology itself is malware, but its behavior replicates that of malware.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Yes hello John Windows my microwave account name is Oobe\bypassnro

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    This also works: shift-F10 before you get to the network configuration, then type this and press enter start ms-cxh:localonly

    For either method, if you configure networking during setup, e.g. plug in an ethernet cable or give it the wi-fi password, it'll keep returning to the online account screen. You need to do it prior to network config.

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  • [+] -10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Right. So you're all panicking just in case.

    That's what's being swept under the rug as "alarmists being loud".

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The same way you have a lock on your front door “just in case”. It’s not emotional. It’s logical.

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  • [–] -3 points 1 year ago

    The lock is there. The whole thing is encrypted.

    If they somehow go through encryption, they won't just have the EU on their arses, governments of the entire world will be after them, because they trust that this encryption system makes their data secure.

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