Windows 11 is quietly installing OneDrive Photos, and it wants to scan your photos for faces

[jonsnow@mastodon.online]

Windows 11 is quietly installing OneDrive Photos, and it wants to scan your photos for faces

https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/07/29/windows-11-is-quietly-installing-onedrive-photos-another-image-viewer-that-nobody-asked-for/

#Microslop #Microsoft #Windows11 #OneDrive #spyware #malware #enshittification #privacy #surveillance #software #technology

[manyroads@mstdn.social]

@jonsnow Use windows get stalkers (peeping Toms) ... who knew.

[reggiehere@mastodon.social]

@jonsnow

'If you allow it' in this context meaning if you dig through the depths of the settings menu to repeatedly disallow it after every update.

[jonsnow@mastodon.online]

@ReggieHere your choice is "Of course I agree!" or "Ask me later"

[troy_frizzell@mstdn.social]

@jonsnow

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.

[greenpete@sunny.garden]

@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?

[jscybersec@infosec.exchange]

@jonsnow I remember back when onedrive first started (skydrive) they'd up your storage limit to 30G from 5 if you enabled sync for photos. Now you don't even get the poisoned carrot >.>

[gimulnautti@mastodon.green]

@jonsnow Total surveillance state by corporation is no different to total surveillance state by government, on the street level.

[reggiehere@mastodon.social]

@greenpete

It seems to be becoming a feature of US tech platforms generally.

@jonsnow

[bytebro@mastodonapp.uk]

@greenpete @jonsnow @ReggieHere

You know that 'jealous girlfriend' meme? The girl in blue looking horrified is labeled 'Windows', and the one in red that just walked past is labeled 'Linux'. The man is labeled 'most users'

[gooba42@mastodon.social]

@jonsnow Nope. That's why #immich exists.

[nandor@universeodon.com]

@jonsnow One of the many reasons I'm not upgrading to Windows 11. I'm biting the bullet and planning a migration to Linux.

[darkpixel@infosec.exchange]

@jonsnow From Recall to scanning your faces. They're the same picture.

[jernej__s@infosec.exchange]

@troy_frizzell @jonsnow Hint: Ctrl+Shift+Esc (to open Task Manager), then go to Startup tab (the speedometer symbol), and disable OneDrive startup there.

[deltalima@social.la10cy.net]

@jonsnow Windows behaves from day to day more like a data stealing malware.
@prahou drawing fits very nicely to those news:
https://analognowhere.com/_/oumuti/

[lifewithtrees@mstdn.social]

@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.

[menschlich@troet.cafe]

@jonsnow

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.

[demon6@metalhead.club]

@jonsnow
The only good way to be rid of this is to delete the exe and the shortcut with group policy.

[waldorf@infosec.exchange]

@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!

[musiquenow@masto.ai]

@jonsnow

Everyone please take a look at this post

#tech #FuckOneDrive #FuckMicrosoft