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> Microsoft Word and Excel AI data scraping slyly switched to enabled by default — the opt-out toggle is not that easy to find

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As a tech person, keeping up with disabling and avoiding all this is becoming exhausting. I can’t imagine any regular non-tech person having any chance at avoiding it.

Is it time to just give up? At what point do you have to accept that the tsunami is here and there’s nothing you can do about it?

Worse than exhausting, this is clearly a pattern of abuse done by purposeful intent.

Security fatigue is a well known thing in IT. Configuration fatigue where your configurations malevolently switch back on after the options you chose, disabled them is just as bad, resulting in vexatious experiences.

This is the problem when antitrust is not enforced, and regulation has killed all other smaller market participants. It creates dynamics (abuses) that cause societal upheaval which inevitably lead to violence.

Its really stupid, but the people making these decisions are evil people. Every reasonable person knows that actions have consequences.

>At what point do you have to accept that the tsunami is here and there’s nothing you can do about it?

Around the late 2000's, but maybe it was earlier. The best time to buy msft stock is always right now.

The solution isn't to give up or attempt to avoid it - it's to make this sort of thing illegal.