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> OneDrive which now defaults to storing online only Holy shit that's nuts!
by stronglikedan 7mo ago
> OneDrive which now defaults to storing online only
Holy shit that's nuts!
- autoexec 7mo agoMakes it easier for them to mine your files for personal data they can use to push ads I guess.
- pllbnk 7mo agoAll they (all big tech companies) have been doing for the past decades has been mining data for ads. Yet, they still are pretty much stuck on the same level: - I search for and buy something, they keep showing me ads for the thing I don't need anymore. - I check out some random product, they all think if they just show me one more ad with that product, I will surely buy it. While I am not immune to ads and they help with brand recognition, it can sometimes serve opposite purpose than intended.
- themafia 7mo ago- You started watching videos about farm equipment and how repairable it isn't. Now you get ads for farm supplies. You haven't been on a farm in 25 years.
- throwaway5465 7mo agoI view it as a change in philosophy that does allow more ads indeed and goes deeper into how microsoft view themselves and by extension their customers: You have an account that exists on Microsoft - on being somewhere, multiple places at once, even in location and function, in a ocean of Microsoft but whose existence and ownership of existence is finely permissioned. vs. You own your device(s).
- userbinator 7mo agoOne drive. On a server in one of Microsoft's datacenters.
- jasomill 7mo agoWorse, when Microsoft made this change, One Drive actually deleted almost a terabyte of files from my Mac. Uninstalled, restored from a recent backup, and haven't used it, or any other cloud sync application, since.