Windows 11 is now automatically enabling OneDrive folder backup without asking permission : technology

[-] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

I love the journalism on that site, pretty direct

[-] [email protected] 48 points 5 days ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

They dont care about piracy unless its a large organization.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

What about default opt-out on "don't automatically upload files to onedrive"

[-] [email protected] 34 points 5 days ago

Ehh that's just file stealing. Could expect that from Microsoft

[-] [email protected] 21 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Jokes on them. I uploaded 1 TB of pirated content years ago before the 365 subscription expired and OneDrive hasn’t functioned since.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 5 days ago

That would fail our current process of approving where we can store documents, just as well I have a Mac for work

[-] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

That could be dangerous for those in domestic abuse situations! Oh gosh 😮😥

[-] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

#RUNBSD time

[-] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

Time to switch to Linux

[-] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

Uninstall OneDrive, problem solved.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago

*Uninstall Windows, problem solved.

FTFY

[-] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

You say that as if it was easy, and as if it doesn't come back again a few Windows updates down the road.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

I uninstalled onedrive with Geek Uninstaller on several of company PCs and none of it had come back.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

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.

[+] [email protected] -40 points 5 days ago

It’s not difficult to turn off.

[-] [email protected] 32 points 5 days ago

It will turn itself back on during a background update, though. Should I be expected to check it daily to make sure Microscam isn't stealing my data?

[-] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

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.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

switch to Mint.

That's the right move!

[-] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 31 points 5 days ago

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 ?

[-] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago

Yeah, the body has a way of shutting that whole thing down.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

Indeed, it's that rapist mentality, just like Rossmann calls it out in his videos.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago

Microsoft: It's not difficult to turn back on

[-] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

It's just an innocent bug that happens every update!

[-] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

It's not a bug, it's a feature!

[-] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Like a cockroach?

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