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.
When you download something without permission, you’re a criminal
When MicroShit does it, it’s a feature
Well you see, they put it in page 69 of their EULA that got updated last week that they emailed directly to your spam folder. Since you didn’t opt out of that clause my sending a registered letter to their offices in Uganda, Japan, Washington, and Ukraine, it is considered that you agreed to the EULA.
Gotta get scrapping all that data to train copilot+++
This one never really gets old anymore.
Vote this up higher. I wouldn’t be surprised at all if everything ends up in their models.
This is probably the only reason microsoft recall exists, as it is completely useless for anything else.
Oh it was your data? Oops! Embarrassing! Anyway, introducing MAIS! Microsoft AI system!
Rapist mentality.
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.
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
Every new “feature” I hear about in Windows Privacy Invasion Goes to 11, the happier I am that I switched to Linux. It’s been mostly smooth and games have just worked. Though I know that much of that is because of Proton.
Funnily, or sadly enough, OneDrive integration is one of the things I miss from my windows days. It’s just extremely convenient how it’s integrated into explorer and office. And how well the smart/ on-demand sync works. I can’t find a setup to replicate this on Linux.
That being said I don’t intend to go back and this move is insane.
If you are willing to self-host, I’ve found Nextcloud integrates well in Linux. I had been using it before I made the switch and it worked out just fine afterwards. I originally set it up to have a cloud-sync option for my phone, which didn’t mean passing everything through Google first. But, it also proved to be a handy way to sync files on my desktop as well.
It just shows up as another folder on my system and Libre Office is happy to work on files from there (with some permissions fiddling due to flatpak).Yes, but I can’t get the virtual file system/on-demand sync to work properly. It turn off every time I reboot. I gave up after a while since it’s experimental for now anyway.
That’s interesting. I’ve not had that sort of issue. On my phone (Android), my son’s laptop (Windows) and my desktop (Arch Linux) the NextCloud clients all sync perfectly and run at start up. Granted, knowing that the Linux landscape is fractured, I wouldn’t be overly surprised if the client had issues on some flavors of Linux.
I use Nexcloud-client and so far, it syncred the ~/nextcloud folder pretty good with my Linux devices so far, but I do not jave huge files in it either. Mostly my keepass file.
I’ve been using next loud with my Nas for years. I sync things to it. Linux Windows Mac, doesn’t matter. Even my phone.
I’m in a similar situation - I’m a (retired) Unix admin and have Linux servers at home but I’m still on windows for my desktop because of OneDrive. If you use it as intended, it works really well. I can login to my laptop, my phone or either of my wife’s PC’s and all my stuff is just there.
Yes, I’ve tried nextcloud and it’s close, but the windows sync client is (was?) broken - the upload speed throttling logic is broken and it was going to take ages to sync my data. I went to the nextcloud community and it seemed to be a known issue that know one cares about because the sync just happens in the background and it’s done when it’s done.
As I typed this I realised that if I move to Linux desktop I don’t care about the windows sync client :-) So now I’ve just got the issue that I won’t get my wife off windows and if we’re paying for 5TB of cloud storage, I might as well use it. Yes, I know there are ways to use OneDrive on Linux, but it doesn’t look as seamless and I’d be always concerned that Microsoft will do something to break it.
I had luck with increasing memory allocation in my php config for mine. Also having more ram may help if you have bigger files. Afaik nextcloud doesn’t have caching like unraid or truenas. I’m not aware of transfer speed issues. I’ve also no issues saturating my 1gig connection to it either.
Thank you! I thought was going nuts. It’s been such a long time since I had think about whether something is synced or a way to set it up. With OneDrive I could just grab the files I needed from the cloud and push them off the drive if I needed space. It really took away any hassle about sync.
It really feels like moving to Linux is a step back 10 years when it comes to cloud storage.
I also tried nextcloud but the smart / on-demand/ virtual file system is experimental in the Linux client and doesn’t work as seemlesly as OneDrive. Besides being turned off every time I restart.
ExpanDrive is not free (as in libre or beer), but it’s great for OneDrive integration with the filesystem. Been using it for this for a few months now with no issues. Just my two cents.
Thanks! I looked at it but I would like to stop giving money to MS. So my plan is to ultimately move away from OneDrive.
Have you played with NextCloud
I wonder about Microsoft’s liability on this one. People store all sorts of things in there, some personal, and some corporate things that are at least non-public, if not outright sensitive. Yeah, people should be using an encrypted drive for especially sensitive info (not that this would stop Microsoft when they own the OS), but they don’t, and it’s not for Microsoft to force the issue.
Did their legal department actually sign off on this? Or did someone in MS legal just shit a brick when they saw the headlines?
If Microsoft was a smaller company, this would completely ruin them and the next headline would be them declaring bankruptcy after failing to fight off 50,000 lawsuits. Fortunately for them, laws don’t apply to companies their size.
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…only if you HAVE onedrive account it can reach.
This is a fantastic use case for NOT using a Microsoft account and instead a local account. No Microsoft authenticated account, no Onedrive.
Good thing they are phasing out local accounts, then.
/s
until you can no longer log on with just a local Account. or your Data gets backed up for you anyway. Enshittification is one exec decision away
When I use Windows 11, I use a second local non admin account.
Looks like I’m installing Linux tonight.
Yeah. Which one did you go with?!
I’d say try Nobara if you wanna game.
Mint was painless for me and I’ve had no problems with my Steam library
Did you?
I finally installed Linux Mint along with Windows 11.
Even on windows 10, Onedrive uploaded random crap you don’t want and then yells at you that the space is full and buy a subscription. It has to be the worst cloud service of them all because of the bullshit integration. It was easier to disable and remove it than to work with it.
I have disabled and uninstalled it, but office 365 still enforces it as the default save as location, so now when I use the dialogue, the system hangs for 30 seconds. Even disabled it in the policy management, but no dice.
@viking @Audacious Wise Registry Cleaner may help here. It’s like the old ccleaner but without the spying and complaints to buy. The issue is most likely registry related.
Oh nice, thanks! Will give it a shot.
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.
I was thinking if iOS haha, my bad.
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 wonder how this will work with local accounts
"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.
Coincidentally, they make it harder to use a local account with every update.
Not sure there will be any.
“All your base are belong to us”
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.
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.
Please backup all this copyrighted material
Obligatory just switch to Linux plug
