[VohuMana]

I’m not up to date with how the filter is supposed to work, the article mentions it hides Google Password Manager but didn’t hide passwords in plain text in a notepad text file. Seems like maybe programs have to indicate they should be hidden from Recall?

That said the feature still seems kinda dumb to me and feels very much like a solution in search of a problem. There is a ton of data on a device which doesn’t require screen shotting everything. Want to help the user find some website they visited long ago? Just parse every web page the user visits and summarize it no screen shot necessary

[bastawhiz]

> Seems like maybe programs have to indicate they should be hidden from Recall?

That's not a solution, though. If I use Obsidian to store sensitive information about my business, does Obsidian need to know that the information is sensitive and to tell Windows not to look at it? How would it possibly know?

Fundamentally the user is the one who knows, and telling the OS whether every last thing is safe to index or not it's simply a non starter. Hell, even trusting the user to reliably and accurately tell you what is actually sensitive or not isn't going to work either.

[VohuMana]

Agreed, I don’t think there is a reliable way to actually achieve what Recall is trying to accomplish. I think if all the models and stuff strictly ran locally with no chance of leaving the box it wouldn’t be as much of an issue at that point it would be the same as if you stored all your passwords in a text file.