• A Chrome extension called “Microsoft to Microslop” that renames Microsoft references in browsers as a protest against the company’s aggressive AI integration.
  • The extension reflects widespread user frustration with Microsoft’s Copilot AI, which faces extremely low adoption rates and growing privacy concerns among Windows users.
  • Many users actively seek ways to remove AI features from Windows, highlighting significant backlash against Microsoft’s AI strategy despite CEO dismissals of complaints.
  • FauxLiving@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    If you want to make Microsoft’s CEO cry then you install Linux and convince all of your friends to do the same.

    Using their OS, feeding them telemetry, being opted into their cloud storage but swapping some letters in your browser content is about as useless as mopping a sewer pipe.

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      7 hours ago

      They’re also suggesting a Chrome extension, as if Chrome doesn’t also feed a fascist beast’s slop machine.

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        7 hours ago

        I can’t fault them, their heart is in the right place even if they don’t actually know what to do.

        Give 'em tips as you can and wait a few years, we were all idiots at one point