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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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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] brb 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

EU: best can do is 0.5% of global revenue