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[โ€“] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@piefed.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Which is the only reason why Clippy didn't steal your data. If it could have, it would have.

[โ€“] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Nah. In the 1990s personal data wasn't valuable to Microsoft because they weren't selling advertising at the time.

Clippy was there only to sell more copies of office.