According to the latest reports, Windows 11 has made an independent choice by automatically turning on OneDrive folder backup for Desktop, Pictures, Documents, Music, and Video folders without your permission. This signifies that, whether you approve or not, everything is becoming coordinated with the cloud.
This action from Microsoft fits into a larger pattern where big tech companies cleverly (or not so cleverly) promote their services and subscriptions to users. It isn’t only about Microsoft; there have been instances of Google doing something similar with Google Photos and its storage plans.
Keep an eye on your settings, particularly when you have just finished setting up a new device or updating your operating system. Companies such as Microsoft constantly seek methods to link users with their environments—sometimes without permission.
It is shit but it’s easy to turn off.
Doesn’t really matter if it is easy to turn off. By that point it is already too late, all your files have been uploaded to their server.
Not how that should work. They don’t get permission to all that unless I say so.
How?
Right click Onedrive Icon, settings, sync and backup, Manage Backup, turn off what ever you don’t want backed up. At that point all your desktop / document content will disappear (looks like Microsoft linked the normal and Onedrive folders, which is a useful trick occasionally) so move everything out of Onedrive back into your normal folders
Please backup all this copyrighted material
At this point onedrive can stick a finger in your asshole… And notbing would be done about it!
I got nothing to hide anyway
Would let me watch you take a shit? o.o
Sure. That’s my kink…
Are we doing a Cleveland steamer?
Cool, give me your SSN and bank account numbers
I don’t give my number to no scrubs…
Only to mega corps and Catholic clergy ;)
Thats okay, bad actors are already coming out with tools to take your info from these new “features”. No need for your permission.
feels a bit “rapey” no?
Not sure why these articles are only coming out now. My work bought me a win11 computer a few months ago and I was surprised to learn that the first few things I downloaded to the desktop showed up on my one drive. I don’t really use the account I have on it for much, and it was easy enough to turn off in settings but it was still a shock.
Just another invasion of privacy by a giant corpo that none of its users asked for
It’s been the default since 2015 when Windows 10 launched, although there was an obvious button to opt out during first-time setup back then which was then respected permanently. It’s got gradually less prominent over time, and maybe the article’s just doing a really bad job of explaining that it’s no longer something where your initial preference is permanent and it’ll change back to the default every so often.
How does one block this?
Microsoft is an abusive ex. It will keep abusing you because it knows no other way. You can waste your days trying to fight against it, trying to figure out how to disable and remove whatever new privacy invasive anti-consumer bloat Microsoft decides to roll out that Tuesday.
Or you can leave and switch to Linux and waste time there instead. Tux is all about that respect and is handsome to boot. He might be a bit sensitive and break down rarely so you might need to spare a few to make sure he’s ok, but it’s nothing a little love can’t handle. And he’s only going to get better and stronger as he grows. You might even look forward to receiving updates (wow, I know). A stark contrast from your abusive ex.
Rapist mentality.
Louis Rossman is a far right extremist who promotes unfounded conspiracy theories against technical corporations.
I’m wondering how many people won’t know if that’s serious or not.
Yes, he does talk a lot about “what ifs” but a lot of his “conspiracy theories” are in the realm of reality. If you do your own research, I think you’ll see that most companies are getting shittier as time goes on.
You could say if you’re serious or not, but hey
Your honour, I asked her if she wanted to have it and she said no. I wasn’t sure what that meant so I asked again. And to make things clearer I told her that “yes” and “maybe later” where the only options. She still didn’t say yes, but after some time I decided that “later” had come. So I Azure you, I did nothing wrong.
Yes, this. That’s essentially the attitude of all of these corporate exec. They know it’s wrong and do it anyways.
I’m pretty sure they don’t think it’s wrong.
Maybe maybe not. But they sure as shit do things they know they wouldn’t be able to get away with in any other situation.
Yeah, that’s sadly what a lot of companies do. Push it until people complain, then back off a little for a while and then push further once people are used to the status quo. Rinse and repeat.
There’s always a justification to be
abused somewhere.
Obligatory just switch to Linux plug
Remember when Word and Excel Autosave did what you expected it to?
Install Linux already, just get it over with.
Yes, install Linux and the end up using O365 in the cloud anyways 🤡
People usually don’t use linux because or app compatibility ik wine exists but it just doesn’t not work with all apps
To really switch to Linux people need to accept that for a good experience you may need to switch off some software to alternative software.
This wasn’t a big deal for me personally and I’m happy I use more open source software now, it can be a bigger issue especially if you need specific tools for work.
Most apps have open source versions which work better anyway. I’ve been on a Linux desktop literally for the past 20+ years now, never looked back
Ngl I have been using some of the open source alternatives on linux now
I stopped calling them alternatives because that implies that its somehow a “B” version, less than “the original”. Many times these lesser know softwares are superior to their closed source counterparts
Make VR work on Linux
I have it somewhat working on Nobara after SteamVR updated a few weeks back. It works, but is rather unstable and you got to reboot any time it craps out. 6/10 technically functional, but needs work.
It doesn’t help that my headset has had odd issues even on Windows since it’s refurbished.
Yea I fucked around a lot to make it work, Nobara is usually the most stable one to get vr working but valve keeps pushing out updates that completely fucks up the vr launch process. The other big issue is asynchronous reprojection missing.
Literally one of the very few things keeping me with a Windows partition, though it doesn’t get used very often
My understanding is that it is working much better now than a few months ago. I haven’t actually put it to the test yet, but it is on my list of things to try once I have time to set up my index again.
I’m still learning but it’s so much less aggressive in Linux land.
Last night I updated my BIOS and afterwards my Linux Boot Manager entry was gone. Almost expected but still didn’t prepare a LiveUSB, stupid. Had to boot into Windows for the first time in a year and was greeted with the message “Hey some security thing changed, your pin is no longer working. Wanna create a new one?” Of course you need to log in to your Microsoft account for that, otherwise you straight up can’t use your install anymore.
Your mistake was using a MS account for your windows install
Believe me, I know :D
I have half a mind to just nuke both partitions and just reinstall Arch on the entire drive.
Although I am wondering what would have happened, if I didn’t have Windows installed after the BIOS update. No boot entries at all? 🤔
“All your base are belong to us”
You have no chance to survive make your time
Apple does it too if you sign in in the Settings. iCloud gets booted up the moment you sign in and everything goes to the iCloud
Not everything. By default the contents of your desktop and documents folder, both of which are easy to switch off if you want.
True, although their OSes don’t really disclose what is and is not being stored in the cloud by default. I like iCloud syncing, so it doesn’t bother me, but I could see how this would annoy others who want everything local.
I was thinking if iOS haha, my bad.
I thought part of the apple agreement was that all your data is on their servers. Isn’t that why my media messages from Android to Apple phones look like shit, because Apple only sends shit through their servers and refuses to adapt the industry standard for mobile data?
Well, I deleted Onedrive a long time ago, so no it won’t.
It will sneak back on. Linux is the only answer.
Windows is the only operating system that is actively working against you these days. Sneaks in shit settings. Renenables disabled settings. Spies on you. Requires convoluted registry ha ks to stop some of the bullshit. And you always gotta be in too of it.
No thanks, not for me.
People keep saying this, but I’ve never had to redo any of the changes I’ve made.
I’m guessing you audit all the network traffic out of your machine too, to ensure things are not being exfiltrated? I assume you’ve also never had settings turned back on after an update? I sure as shit have.
I’ve never had the settings turned back on after an update, but no I don’t monitor my network traffic, if I cared that much, I’d already be on linux.
I wonder how this will work with local accounts
Coincidentally, they make it harder to use a local account with every update.
"We’ve gone ahead and synced all your files to the cloud! Create an account to access them once again.
Enter your email: ______
[ Click here to delay the inevitable ]"
It just won’t work for a local account. This is for those who sign in/up. And those who are forced to sign in/up in the first setup. My hate towards Microsoft and all the companies like it increases every fucking day.
Not sure there will be any.
It cannot be that profitable to have just a bunch of random data on their servers. I have so much junk and random bullshit on my drives, it would take a week of labor just to clean my shit well enough to use it for AI training and as soon as I got any notification about cloud space being full i’d turn syncing off - i sure as hell wouldn’t fork over any money for a subscription. This is such a big bridge to burn, and the server overhead must be massive… I just don’t understand how they could possibly think this is a good business decision.
Idk, maybe i’m just too deep into privacy/FOSS/selfhosting headspace to see things clearly from the normal-consumer standpoint but I just do not understand this. I really wish someone would leek an internal conversation at one of these companies that explains the big-picture strategy with this move.
They’re thinking quarterly. Improves OneDrive usage stats. They can also then coerce customers later by saying they’re running out of storage. I’m sure some users will pay, thinking they’re about to lose family photos and other important data
