The company is reducing Copilot entry points on Windows, starting with Photos, Widgets, Notepad, and other apps.

Archived version: https://archive.is/newest/https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/20/microsoft-rolls-back-some-of-its-copilot-ai-bloat-on-windows/

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[+] -12 points 7 months ago (6 children)

the background apo you call "spy app" is recal and its

  1. for copilot + arm pcs only.
  2. off by default
  3. and runs local only, so not spying
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  • [–] 12 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    Considering it's a closed source, proprietary system, you sure seem confident about the 'local only not spying ' thing.

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  • [–] -2 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    use wireshark. there are many ways to monitor traffic

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

    one of the only things this sort of AI is good at is summarizing, so it could be distilling your most sensitive info down into a brief but juicy dossier that it actually sends encrypted to microsoft. Or it could only send when specific content like political dissidence is detected. Wireshark solves nothing

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago*

    Eh. Okay. If you are saying that copilot sends no data back to microsoft relating to what I am doing on my PC... I.. believe?... You? Thanks?

    One way or another, copilot was running on my PC after an update and was causing a lag in everything including mouse and keyboard input. I disabled it using this method : https://youtu.be/huKvvOKbkaA and the lag immediately went away with no other change.

    So I don't care if they were sending my personal keyboard info to Putin himself, to copilot main model as prompts, just storing training info in a binary file on my pc or just sitting there doing "nothing" and clogging my memory, it was making a noticeable difference in my PC operation.

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