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Re: How does Copilot know WHO you are?

From	Paul <nospam@needed.invalid>
Newsgroups	alt.comp.os.windows-11, alt.comp.os.windows-10
Subject	Re: How does Copilot know WHO you are?
Date	2025-03-21 23:38 -0400
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On Fri, 3/21/2025 6:21 PM, Hank Rogers wrote:
> 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?

The CoPilot is passive, and does not involved any more of a privacy
leak, than the existing structure on the machine. You would
need to remove all the copies of MSEdge, to have a start at
privacy.

If you are not using CoPilot, it's not plotting the takeover
of the machine while you sleep. I would be a lot more
interested in the "News and Interests" and the unstoppable
Location Service that uses. That would be a better use of
your time.

   Paul

Thread

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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