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

"Quietly and without any announcement, the company [#Microsoft] changed Windows 11's initial setup so that it could turn on the automatic folder backup without asking for it."

Imagine your operating system forcing all your desktop files to sync to the cloud, without letting you know it would do that. Users should be aware of when their files are synced to any cloud.

Oh wait, I forgot... Microsoft has zero regard for user choice, #privacy, and #security.

#privacymatters

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

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.
Taras Buria (Neowin)
#onedrive #privacy #Windows #security #microsoft #privacymatters
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Tamas G

@clv0 thankfully not. It's only if you are "...setting up a new Windows computer the way Microsoft wants them to (in other words, connected to the internet and signed into a Microsoft account)..." Hopefully the various workarounds for local account-first set-ups won't go away fully, or if they do people will find other ways. Of course, even then we're still at the mercy of Microsoft, in a way.
@Cleverson
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