Microsoft quietly changed how folder backup works in the OneDrive app on Windows 11. Now, the OS enables it by default during the initial setup without asking the user for permission.
Stealing all your files to train AI.
And they complain that MS Office gets pirated.
Privacy and default Opt-Out needs to be a Federal Law. Corporations need to pay millions in fines when they violate that.
Should not, wonder if there’s any adguard/pihole lists to smack OneDrive/box/Dropbox/etc domains and just take these services out before they can start.
If you HAVE to use the toilet of an OS. Use a system(machine) startup script that runs a cleanupon every boot. Its a hot mess solution to a hot mess OS. But at the end of the day they cannot be trusted and changes are coming to windows access levels which will prevent the cleanup of “essential” apps, services, and configurations.
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Jokes on them. I uploaded 1 TB of pirated content years ago before the 365 subscription expired and OneDrive hasn’t functioned since.
Ehh that’s just file stealing. Could expect that from Microsoft
I love the journalism on that site, pretty direct
#RUNBSD time
Stealing all your files to train AI. And they complain that MS Office gets pirated. Privacy and default Opt-Out needs to be a Federal Law. Corporations need to pay millions in fines when they violate that.
What about default opt-out on “don’t automatically upload files to onedrive”
They dont care about piracy unless its a large organization.
That could be dangerous for those in domestic abuse situations! Oh gosh 😮😥
Uninstall OneDrive, problem solved.
You say that as if it was easy, and as if it doesn’t come back again a few Windows updates down the road.
It was easy for me, and has never come back. Then again, a lot of the fear mongering I see about windows has never been my experience with it.
I uninstalled onedrive with Geek Uninstaller on several of company PCs and none of it had come back.
*Uninstall Windows, problem solved.
FTFY
Time to switch to Linux
It’s not difficult to turn off.
Well everything is dandy fine then ? It’s no problem if someone does anything without consent as long as you can “easily” do something about it heh ?
Yeah, the body has a way of shutting that whole thing down.
Indeed, it’s that rapist mentality, just like Rossmann calls it out in his videos.
Microsoft: It’s not difficult to turn back on
It’s just an innocent bug that happens every update!
It’s not a bug, it’s a feature!
Like a cockroach?
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Should not, wonder if there’s any adguard/pihole lists to smack OneDrive/box/Dropbox/etc domains and just take these services out before they can start.
If you HAVE to use the toilet of an OS. Use a system(machine) startup script that runs a cleanupon every boot. Its a hot mess solution to a hot mess OS. But at the end of the day they cannot be trusted and changes are coming to windows access levels which will prevent the cleanup of “essential” apps, services, and configurations.
So switch to Mint.
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That would fail our current process of approving where we can store documents, just as well I have a Mac for work