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TLDR:
Windows 11 v24H2 and beyond will have Recall installed on every system. Attempting to remove Recall will now break some file explorer features such as tabs.

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[–] [email protected] 94 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's so you can't rip Recall out without ruining Explorer, and possibly other things

[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Internet explorer did similar things, try to remove it and the OS would just crash.

Edit: just remembered it also had direct memory access to make it faster (well, less slow) which was so insanely unsecure on so many levels.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 month ago (1 children)

A browser, which is like the prime attack vector for malware and other nasty stuff, having direct memory access is so hilarious in hindsight

These days you try to sandbox everything as much as possible in the browser since the internet is like the least trusted environment there is

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Except the OS in this case lol

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

it also had direct memory access to make it faster

WHAT?!! That's a special level of wbject disregard for security.