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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[–] 39 points 7 months ago* (10 children)

It needs to be rolled back altogether. If the background spy app isn't done away with, anything else is pointless window dressing. It was bogging my work computer down to unusable until I found out how to force it not to run.

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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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    Too little too late

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  • [–] 17 points 7 months ago

    Less slop? Great!

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  • [–] 16 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Holy shit!!!!! I don't care, fuck microslop.

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago

    Now tell me when they stop trying to force OneDrive for everyone’s private data

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago

    Too late I'm already on Linux and I only regret not doing it sooner

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  • You misspelled micro slop

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    [–] 4 points 7 months ago

    To bad, already jumped ship

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    [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    If they knew any better, they'd link rewards to enrollment. Customers want choice and incentives.

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