Comment on You can’t get rid of it, you can only hide it: Microsoft imposes controversial Windows Backup on users

• bob_wiley@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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  • wooki@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Wow that’s where you draw the line? Exfiltration! Fuck me.

    I draw the line at anticompetitive design and leverage system as an excuse with all this spyware is just more indicators from Microsoft that they can’t compete in an open market.

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    • bob_wiley@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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      • wooki@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Cool story.

        To quote Nadella himself “Defaults are the only thing that matter”.

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  • OfficerBribe@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Does it automatically back things up, even if you don’t have a Microsoft account or turn it on?

    It’s optional as most things in Windows. Also if you do not use MS account where would backup be stored, how would you restore it? :)

    Here are more reputable sources:

    • MS article
    • Windows Central
    • LazyAdmin

    Have not used it myself, but I think most if not all of this was already available through Settings so it’s nothing new. LazyAdmin article seems to state the same.

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    • wooki@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      “Reputable.”

      You mean sponsored.

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      • OfficerBribe@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        No, meant reputable, because 1st one is MS article and those 2 others are blogs that I have read in the past and have not had much issues with their content (also I skimmed through them)

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• DarienGS@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  forced cloud spyware which at this point is the entire OS now

  I mean, apart from…

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  • wooki@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Apart from the entire OS is spyware

    techspot.com/…/97535-windows-11-spyware-machine-o….

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