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Once I have my (now ex) girlfriend at home, and she wanted to check her email. So she used my computer to login on Outlook and just do her thing for work. Littl

Once I have my (now ex) girlfriend at home, and she wanted to check her email. So she used my computer to login on Outlook and just do her thing for work. Little did I know that logging to Outlook actually added some new account on my computer (for the same windows User), and it started to sync all the stuff from my ex's workplace. Fast forward 1 month later, we broke up, and I was still seeing her stuff popping on my computer, as "recently opened" in the file explorer, or "recommended" in the start menu. Since we recently broke up it was really affecting my mood to be constantly reminded of her. I struggled for like 3 months to find the option to deactivate it. I even considered formating my computer. It really felt like a private space violation, like my computer wasn't even my own, and all that just with a naive email login followed buy a ton of implicit behaviors.

freedomben 2y ago
See any documents titled "My Revenge Plan against TheRogue.docx" ?
- TheRoque 2y ago
  Luckily there wasn't any weird content, just work stuff and memes with colleagues. I couldn't even open the files because it was locked under her login/password, literally just see the thumbnails and titles of the file. It's such a weird feature. Imagine opening your file explorer and seeing the attached files of your ex's emails, updated live, it's a nightmare I swear.
  - freedomben 2y ago
    That's so wild! It does sound like a nightmare. Also a catastrophic violation of privacy (by MS).
    - tremon 2y ago
      Not just violation of privacy; since this was her work account, MS is also leaking private company correspondence.
zigzag312 2y ago
Once I've added my second gmail to the email app on the Android phone and it added it, not only to the email app, but to the whole system. I just wanted to be notified about receiving new mail to that address, but Google decided it needed to sync and backup everything on the phone also to that second email. I consider these kind of things hostile, dark patterns.

freedomben 2y ago

See any documents titled "My Revenge Plan against TheRogue.docx" ?

TheRoque 2y ago
Luckily there wasn't any weird content, just work stuff and memes with colleagues. I couldn't even open the files because it was locked under her login/password, literally just see the thumbnails and titles of the file. It's such a weird feature. Imagine opening your file explorer and seeing the attached files of your ex's emails, updated live, it's a nightmare I swear.
- freedomben 2y ago
  That's so wild! It does sound like a nightmare. Also a catastrophic violation of privacy (by MS).
  - tremon 2y ago
    Not just violation of privacy; since this was her work account, MS is also leaking private company correspondence.

zigzag312 2y ago

Once I've added my second gmail to the email app on the Android phone and it added it, not only to the email app, but to the whole system. I just wanted to be notified about receiving new mail to that address, but Google decided it needed to sync and backup everything on the phone also to that second email. I consider these kind of things hostile, dark patterns.