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
Gotta get scrapping all that data to train copilot+++
Vote this up higher. I wouldn’t be surprised at all if everything ends up in their models.
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.
…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
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 ]"
Not sure there will be any.
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.
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.
Rapist mentality.
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.
Please backup all this copyrighted material
Obligatory just switch to Linux plug
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?
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.
At this point onedrive can stick a finger in your asshole… And notbing would be done about it!
I got nothing to hide anyway
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.
Would let me watch you take a shit? o.o
Sure. That’s my kink…
Are we doing a Cleveland steamer?
