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Microsoft Word and Excel AI data scraping slyly switched to opt-in by default — the opt-out toggle is not that easy to find (www.tomshardware.com)

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[-] TheSealStartedIt@lemmy.world 48 points 2 years ago

This is illegal in Europe. I'm pretty sure EU countries are left out of this. This behavior is so blatantly criminal that one wonders why the EU are the only ones who have banned it.

[-] con_fig@programming.dev 8 points 2 years ago

Well I just checked my settings and it was enabled and I'm in the EU. Analytics was disabled but this special content scraper thingy was enabled.

[-] TheSealStartedIt@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

Wow, if that's true, I hope the EU imposes significant fines, and not in two years...

[-] brb@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago

Can confirm. These fuckers are gonna slapped with the mother of all fines

[-] far_university190@feddit.org 2 points 2 years ago

EU: best can do is 0.5% of global revenue

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