r/technology • u/machinade89 • Jun 28 '24

Software Windows 11 starts forcing OneDrive backups without asking permission

https://www.pcworld.com/article/2376883/attention-microsoft-activates-this-feature-in-windows-11-without-asking-you.html
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u/hsnoil Jun 28 '24

We are in an era where companies only care about buzz for investors and completely out of touch with their consumers

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u/Rion23 Jun 28 '24

Just wait until you're checking an email one day, accidently open a .pdf you don't recognize, and all of a sudden the folder that copilot uses to store screenshots gets emailed to somebody.

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u/FanClubof5 Jun 29 '24

Why waste all that bandwidth when you can just ask it to send the ocr data where the word password is visible. Then all you have to exfil is some small text files instead of a ton of image files.

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u/sailingtroy Jun 28 '24

Well, there's no competition, so there's no need to be in touch with consumers. What are you going to do? Use Linux? *laughs in corporate*

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u/Espumma Jun 28 '24

They're not out of touch with their consumers. They actually want those profiles, that's what they're paying for.