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Windows 11 is now automatically enabling OneDrive folder backup without asking permission (www.neowin.net)

submitted 5 months ago by schizoidman@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Just automatically started uploading everything on my hard drive to an account I didn’t set up

Wait, what?

[–] Mostly_Gristle@lemmy.world 16 points 5 months ago

I mean specifically a cloud storage account. Setting up the computer required me to supply an email address and set a password for microsoft.com. There was nothing in that process that I recall mentioning OneDrive, or that would have suggested every file on my C drive was about to be indiscriminately uploaded to a Microsoft server somewhere. I didn't even know OneDrive was a thing until I had to google how to stop it.