It’s the OCR of Damocles!

Someone will figure out an exploit to silently turn it on and then exfil the data.

Inb4 windows nags you about it on every window and “critical os repair” silently enables it

They still have the tech built in to the OS. What are the chances of someone making a virus that forwards the telemetry somewhere else, if that’s even possible.

Using Windows 11 on my laptop finally pushed me to wipe the disk and go full Linux, no duel boot. The point is, it still has the ability.

By opt-in I will immediately presume they mean they will let you know that they’re doing it after you opt-in. I imagine it’s gonna be something they still secretly do without your permission because fuck you peasant.

Fuck. I was hoping they would just go forward with it anyways so it would drive some people over to open source ecosystems. Maybe they’ll make it opt-out again after a couple months and the outrage dies down, as these companies tend to do these days.