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minus-squarefoofiepie@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 month agoSorry OOTL on this. Does that mean auth won’t be local, that users won’t be able to work offline?
minus-squareTetsuo@jlai.lulinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 month agoNo, that just means that an installation with a Microsoft account will track you with it. But I’m nor saying you won’t get any tracking with a local account either. In any case there is “telemetry”.
minus-squareSmoogs@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoSHUT IT DOWN. Grab that Chris Titus tool from GitHub and turn it all off
minus-squarePasserby6497@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoI’m pretty sure that your login creds get cached locally for some amount of time, so you can login without Internet. I know my corporate AAD laptop does that, but I refused to use consumer MS accounts on a personal device.
Sorry OOTL on this. Does that mean auth won’t be local, that users won’t be able to work offline?
No, that just means that an installation with a Microsoft account will track you with it.
But I’m nor saying you won’t get any tracking with a local account either. In any case there is “telemetry”.
SHUT IT DOWN.
Grab that Chris Titus tool from GitHub and turn it all off
I’m pretty sure that your login creds get cached locally for some amount of time, so you can login without Internet. I know my corporate AAD laptop does that, but I refused to use consumer MS accounts on a personal device.