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So do you support media-streaming services being able to modify or deny you content because that's part of the true price?


And there's already huge vulnerabilities. Whoda thunk.


Fascism is definitionally when government and companies team up to screw everyone else.


They want everyone using Microsoft accounts so they can turn computer usage into a subscription service, plus with Recall you get perfect telemetry. Panopticon is here and you pay for the pleasure.


Addressed in another comment: close all loopholes, then make using your computer a subscription service. It's a great business decision. It's a horrendous decision in all other respects.


Windows as a service? Sounds frightening but surely it must be the way they are headed. Glad we have wine.


wine, WINE, or both?


You were downvoted, but once this is fully closed it's obvious they'll remove local account creation entirely within a year.


Why would you say that? How is the current timeline not already shitty enough for you?


Swan dive into the enshittification.


Still a no from me. Right now passkeys are just a way for services to exert more control over users. I don't see that changing for decades at minimum.


> Right now passkeys are just a way for services to exert more control over users

How?


The Streisand Effect exists and yet every company thinks they're the special snowflake that will get away with it.


If it doesn't make as money as addition tech it will lose.


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