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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

All paid products do that that you use every day

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not on my machine. Or at least, I do everything humanly possible to limit it.

Either through:

  • Switching to FOSS alternatives
  • Custom patches applied to proprietary binaries.
  • Blocking network access for certain processes

I don't expect everyone to become a privacy expert though.

However I do believe systematic privacy is important, and that we should aim for better privacy laws to keep the intellectual property of the average user safe.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean yeah that's why I use local models that suck completely for code completion. But why single out copilot when every single electronic device is in a permanent war for cloud capital

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Well, the post was about copilot,
so that's what my comment was about.

But I agree, fck all big-tech software.

If it's not produced by a non-profit as open source, then it's not worth your time.

(Due to anti-consumer practices, spy-ware/telemetry or vunerabilities to worry about)