Windows 11 is quietly installing OneDrive Photos, and it wants to scan your photos for faces
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I have never used OneDrive. Its sad little icon sits in my system tray with a sad line drawn through its sad, gray outline.
The very idea of me putting my data onto Microsoft's server is a laugh.
No. Hard no. Forever and ever amen.
@troy_frizzell @jonsnow Hint: Ctrl+Shift+Esc (to open Task Manager), then go to Startup tab (the speedometer symbol), and disable OneDrive startup there.
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Windows 11 is quietly installing OneDrive Photos, and it wants to scan your photos for faces
#Microslop #Microsoft #Windows11 #OneDrive #spyware #malware #enshittification #privacy #surveillance #software #technology
@jonsnow Windows behaves from day to day more like a data stealing malware.
@prahou drawing fits very nicely to those news:
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@jonsnow @ReggieHere I assume using windows is like being in an abusive relationship, and similar reasons apply in regards to why people don't leave?
@greenpete @jonsnow @ReggieHere it’s easier to not change. The inertia of staying is higher than learning how to do all the Linux things.
IMHO it would take a widely accessible and cheap machine with Linux preinstalled along with basic programs that are windows equivalent to have people move over. Even then that’s friction, so people stay.
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Windows 11 is quietly installing OneDrive Photos, and it wants to scan your photos for faces
#Microslop #Microsoft #Windows11 #OneDrive #spyware #malware #enshittification #privacy #surveillance #software #technology
Your data, including the images, are the property of the companies to which you voluntarily provide them by using Windows or Chrome OS.
If you don't want this, you have to stay away from their products.
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Windows 11 is quietly installing OneDrive Photos, and it wants to scan your photos for faces
#Microslop #Microsoft #Windows11 #OneDrive #spyware #malware #enshittification #privacy #surveillance #software #technology
@jonsnow
The only good way to be rid of this is to delete the exe and the shortcut with group policy. -
Windows 11 is quietly installing OneDrive Photos, and it wants to scan your photos for faces
#Microslop #Microsoft #Windows11 #OneDrive #spyware #malware #enshittification #privacy #surveillance #software #technology
@jonsnow If you or anyone continues to use Windows following the already widespread information of how Microsoft steals your data and uses it for their own financial gain, regardless of it's impact on you, you simply must not care about your personal privacy!
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Windows 11 is quietly installing OneDrive Photos, and it wants to scan your photos for faces
#Microslop #Microsoft #Windows11 #OneDrive #spyware #malware #enshittification #privacy #surveillance #software #technology
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Windows 11 is quietly installing OneDrive Photos, and it wants to scan your photos for faces
#Microslop #Microsoft #Windows11 #OneDrive #spyware #malware #enshittification #privacy #surveillance #software #technology
@jonsnow
OneDrive is one of the most insidious pieces of spyware crap that MS forces people to use without them even realising. -
Windows 11 is quietly installing OneDrive Photos, and it wants to scan your photos for faces
#Microslop #Microsoft #Windows11 #OneDrive #spyware #malware #enshittification #privacy #surveillance #software #technology
@jonsnow
Windows is just spyware now. It is unsafe to use. -
Windows 11 is quietly installing OneDrive Photos, and it wants to scan your photos for faces
#Microslop #Microsoft #Windows11 #OneDrive #spyware #malware #enshittification #privacy #surveillance #software #technology
Most important sentence in the linked article is the last one:
"If you want to block the OneDrive sync client from installing OneDrive Photos, you’ll need to remove OneDrive entirely from Settings > Installed apps."
#Microslop #Microsoft #Windows11 #OneDrive #spyware #malware #enshittification #privacy #surveillance #software #technology
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Most important sentence in the linked article is the last one:
"If you want to block the OneDrive sync client from installing OneDrive Photos, you’ll need to remove OneDrive entirely from Settings > Installed apps."
#Microslop #Microsoft #Windows11 #OneDrive #spyware #malware #enshittification #privacy #surveillance #software #technology
#onedrive is truly awful, it wants to take control of your phone and pc
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Windows 11 is quietly installing OneDrive Photos, and it wants to scan your photos for faces
#Microslop #Microsoft #Windows11 #OneDrive #spyware #malware #enshittification #privacy #surveillance #software #technology
@jonsnow
I understand if people find the idea of switching to Linux intimidating or don't want to do that.But maybe they could switch to Mac? I haven't heard of Apple doing near as much privacy-invading stuff as Microsoft. I think at this point people really need to get off of Windows, one way or another.
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Windows 11 is quietly installing OneDrive Photos, and it wants to scan your photos for faces
#Microslop #Microsoft #Windows11 #OneDrive #spyware #malware #enshittification #privacy #surveillance #software #technology
@jonsnow I’m so thankful I jumped off Windows this year. What an absolute shitshow no one asked for.
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Windows 11 is quietly installing OneDrive Photos, and it wants to scan your photos for faces
#Microslop #Microsoft #Windows11 #OneDrive #spyware #malware #enshittification #privacy #surveillance #software #technology
@jonsnow I have Google for that
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Windows 11 is quietly installing OneDrive Photos, and it wants to scan your photos for faces
#Microslop #Microsoft #Windows11 #OneDrive #spyware #malware #enshittification #privacy #surveillance #software #technology
@jonsnow So THIS is the annoying message I keep getting from NVDA, my screen reader every time I start up my computer. I'll never click allow in 10000 years, and I'd like to make that message stop!
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Windows 11 is quietly installing OneDrive Photos, and it wants to scan your photos for faces
#Microslop #Microsoft #Windows11 #OneDrive #spyware #malware #enshittification #privacy #surveillance #software #technology
@jonsnow everyone should get off windows, but if you can't we need a whole lot of ai poison pictures that people can put in their photo folder. Use up their space and screw with their training.
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@jonsnow
I understand if people find the idea of switching to Linux intimidating or don't want to do that.But maybe they could switch to Mac? I haven't heard of Apple doing near as much privacy-invading stuff as Microsoft. I think at this point people really need to get off of Windows, one way or another.
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Most important sentence in the linked article is the last one:
"If you want to block the OneDrive sync client from installing OneDrive Photos, you’ll need to remove OneDrive entirely from Settings > Installed apps."
#Microslop #Microsoft #Windows11 #OneDrive #spyware #malware #enshittification #privacy #surveillance #software #technology
@aerofreak @jonsnow First thing I do when getting someone's Windows set up.
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I have never used OneDrive. Its sad little icon sits in my system tray with a sad line drawn through its sad, gray outline.
The very idea of me putting my data onto Microsoft's server is a laugh.
No. Hard no. Forever and ever amen.
@troy_frizzell @jonsnow You should uninstall it. Otherwise it's too easily to accidentally click something and wind up with all of your private data exfiltrated to their servers.
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@martinvermeer
Yes of course, but I think the biggest issue for many is that you have to install it yourself.I know the actual installation is easy but things like having to decide which distro and DE or WM to use, make a bootable USB and boot from it, possibly needing to get into the BIOS and disable UEFI, etc. are big obstacles for average users.
Organizing more community Linux install fests/parties would help, where people can bring in a computer and have experts there helping them with all that and basic setup or troubleshooting.
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