Tech has long been in the era of surveillance capitalism. Windows, Chrome, MacOS/iOS(iAds, NewsApp, notarization security, mediaanalysisd, and the most locked down hardware on earth), Android, the majority of all of the apps in the various walled gardens are all out to extract, analyze and monetize every aspect of our digital lives... which is a lot of our waking hours.

As users of these services we all need to ask ourselves if the companies who now make up the lion-share our retirement savings, who collectively dictate how we view and interact with the world really have anything but their own best interests in mind.

Most people would say no but "what am I supposed to do?". People really need to understand that power like the kind that these mega-corps have is only taken and basically never surrendered willingly. Vote with your dollars now and for as long as it takes to see the fall of these vile companies.

Seems they're figuring out you can't sell ads and AI on your platform if nobody wants to use your platform.

If Microsoft walks back their use of AI in the development of Windows, that would be a major admission of failure on their part.

But it will probably help prolong their market dominance a great deal. Because up until they started destroying their own OS, all they needed to do to remain on the top was literally nothing.

As positives for them ;)

Plus getting closer with the govt contracts to allow private data to be surveillance.