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.
  • @DaddleDewEnglish
    36•5 months ago

    Well, now I’m gonna start never installing Windows 11 even harder.

    • @DutchieEnglish
      1•5 months ago

      You can stall it without a ms account and only a local account. You need Rufus to create a new usb stick. https://rufus.ie

      • @DaddleDewEnglish
        2•5 months ago

        I used Rufus alright. To create a Linux installation drive. I then realised how good Linux has gotten and I have been using it as my daily driver ever since.

        Fuck Microsoft and their increasingly frequent habit of abusing their dominant position on the market to force undesirable features down their user’s throats.

  • RentlarEnglish
    21•5 months ago

    It’s happened so many times now that these tech news articles have gotten into a habit of including a paragraph on “how to turn off the latest stupid thing Microsoft pushed onto Windows”, because they know people keep looking for these answers.

  • QueueEnglish
    12•5 months ago

    If Recall went through, so much for “it’s all localized and offline.”

    I understand its (currently) not happening, but if Microsoft was able to deflect the criticism long enough, and since no company makes a change like this overnight (The time to approve of the privacy policies, shifting of storage for it, the increased traffic on their servers needing to be accommodated), can you imagine just having it still installed and enabled by default?

    • Johannes JacobsEnglish
      11•5 months ago

      It’ll happen. Microsoft is just waiting to see how much backlash they get, then in a future version its all gonna be enabled by default. “Because people want it! Its the best!”

  • @TreczoksEnglish
    11•5 months ago

    Isn’t that data theft or something? I know the legal situation for users victims in the US is generally bleak, but uploading private data without consent must be something that should have consequences even in the land of the free businesses.

    • @CheeseNoodleEnglish
      7•5 months ago

      Something something you agreed to it in the ToS that you could only read buffalo buffalo buffalo after buying the product which is as legally binding as an IOU written in crayon but they’re rich and your not so get fucked.