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[โ€“] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@piefed.world 5 points 14 hours 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 5 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours 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.