Mr. BitternessJun 3, 2024

This Microsoft Recall thing...

While it does actually omit things that it knows are sensitive (e.g. incognito mode in recognized browsers) from the screenshots it saves, things that it does not know about are all fair game.

DuckDuckGo browser? Never heard of it. Let's hoover up all the data we can get.
Signal? 🤷‍♂️ I'll just default to saving everything I see there.
You get the picture...

Show threadMr. BitternessJun 3, 2024

Chrome-based browser windows in incognito (or whatever they call it) mode are actually omitted from the saved screenshots. Which is sort of neat.

However, Windows is apparently unaware that Firefox Private Browsing is a thing. So all that stuff gets saved.

Show threadMiss Aemilia🎀
@wdormann Are you able to test how it handles encrypted/marked copyrighted content in chrome and non-chrome browsers? Eg, widevine/EME/PAVP/et al users like Netflix or Amazon Prime Video.
Jun 3, 2024 at 9:14pmWeb
Show threadMr. BitternessJun 3, 2024
@MissAemilia
I'm pretty sure DRM'd stuff is exempt from capture at a pretty low level.
Show threadMiss Aemilia🎀Jun 3, 2024
@wdormann Yeah, that's PAVP protecting it, I was mostly just curious if it was gonna block the window (which would require extra effort) or if it was just gonna use the standard PAVP-protected mechanisms. Basically, how much extra effort was put into protecting corporate interests vs user interests :)
Answer turns out to be... not that much.