OneDrive automatically backups folders in Windows 11 without users' permissions
OneDrive automatically backups folders in Windows 11 without users' permissions
Windows 11 now lets OneDrive automatically backup all of your files and folders without asking for users' permissions.
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.
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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.
Completely agree!
How?
Right click Onedrive Icon, settings, sync and backup, Manage Backup, turn off what ever you don't want backed up. At that point all your desktop / document content will disappear (looks like Microsoft linked the normal and Onedrive folders, which is a useful trick occasionally) so move everything out of Onedrive back into your normal folders
It's telling how you get downvoted, but someone saying the same shit about Apple in this thread gets upvoted.
I hate shitty practices like everybody else, but please keep them to the same standard.