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Re: How does Copilot know WHO you are?

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Marion wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Mar 2025 02:33:39 -0400, Paul wrote :
> 
> 
>> The CoPilot in the MSEdge, assumes your login MSA applies
>> to your MSEdge session, and it stores session details
>> against that MSA. If I use the CoPilot in the upper right
>> of MSEdge, it never asks me to log in.
> 
> For obvious reasons, I never use Edge but that's good to know. I wonder 
> how it does it when you don't have a MS account?
> 
>> The CoPilot App on the other hand, begs you to sign in.
>> Which is a weird behavior.
> 
> Yes. Ten, maybe twenty times a day. And it begs you to converse back, even
> giving you pre-selected choices for YOUR responses. Gemini doesn't do that.
> 
>> I suspect CoPilot is using a Service Worker in MSEdge.
> 
> Hmm. Good start. Or, it could just be Copilot was wrong. It might be like
> when my kids tell me they'll do something but they have no intention of it.
> 
>> The CoPilot App could be using WebView, in which case
>> a parallel structure might exist. I had not expected to
>> see an operational Service Worker on the machine, because
>> I don't generally allow that. I am tempted to delete it,
>> but that could make a mess.
> 
> I'm tempted to remove Copilot but I compare it with Gemini.
> So far (one day) I find gemini far more mature. And less comical.
> 
>> The only unknown then, is why does the CoPilot App cling
>> to the notion it is not saving the session against the
>> current owner of the desktop. I don't use the CoPilot App,
>> but I did open it long enough to see the request. Am I actually
>> going to go find my password and log in ? Ah, No.
> 
> I looked it up a bit more and I don't;t think copilot can save sessions so
> I think Copilot assumed I was logged in, when it's impossible to do so.

I was able to turn off all this crap off in windows 11.  But I'm running 
it on a very old machine, so maybe you can't do that if you have fancy 
new hardware?

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How does Copilot know WHO you are? Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-03-21 03:11 +0000
  Re: How does Copilot know WHO you are? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-03-21 02:33 -0400
    Re: How does Copilot know WHO you are? Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-03-21 21:57 +0000
      Re: How does Copilot know WHO you are? Hank Rogers <Hank@nospam.invalid> - 2025-03-21 17:21 -0500
        Re: How does Copilot know WHO you are? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-03-21 23:38 -0400
        Re: How does Copilot know WHO you are? Peter Johnson <peter@parksidewood.nospam> - 2025-03-22 13:21 +0000
    Re: How does Copilot know WHO you are? Kash Patel <kash.patel@fbi.gov> - 2025-03-22 17:00 +0000
      Re: How does Copilot know WHO you are? Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal-september.org> - 2025-03-31 20:47 +1100
  Re: How does Copilot know WHO you are? micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-03-21 13:35 -0400

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