Pargin is right - this should be illegal. In fact it ABSOLUTELY would be, except for the @pluralistic rule: "It's not a crime if we're using an app".

They're literally breaking & into your house & destroying your stuff. No amount of obfuscating legalese would let you or me get away with doing that.

It's fucking insane.

https://www.techspot.com/news/110848-onedrive-backup-feature-making-users-local-files-seemingly.html

#onedrive #microsoft #tech #business #capitalism #ux

Pargin is right - this should be illegal. In fact it ABSOLUTELY would be, except for the @pluralistic rule: "It's not a crime if we're using an app".

They're literally breaking & into your house & destroying your stuff. No amount of obfuscating legalese would let you or me get away with doing that.

It's fucking insane.

https://www.techspot.com/news/110848-onedrive-backup-feature-making-users-local-files-seemingly.html

#onedrive #microsoft #tech #business #capitalism #ux

@rysiek This video about the #OneDrive file deletions is excellent:

https://mastodon.social/@fromjason/115855389307161218

(+ Some writing in German about it:
https://chaos.social/@frumble/115857100195247810 )

Leider auf TikTok, aber das Video ist verdammt gut: Der Autor hat herausgearbeitet, dass sich #OneDrive mit dem erratischen und schwer abstellbaren Upload der lokalen Dateien so verhält, weil es Microsofts Ziel ist, dass der 'originale' Speicherort deiner Dateien in der Cloud ist! Sie wollen das Paradigma drehen! 🤯
Das ergibt in der Cloud-Strategie von #Microsoft so viel Sinn! Sie setzen auf Zermürbung, bis man den neuen Status quo akzeptiert!

https://mastodon.social/@fromjason/115855389307161218

Everyone hates OneDrive, Microsoft's cloud app that steals then deletes all your files - Boing Boing

https://boingboing.net/2026/01/05/everyone-hates-onedrive-microsofts-cloud-app-that-steals-then-deletes-all-your-files.html

#onedrive #microslop

Everyone hates OneDrive, Microsofts cloud app that steals and deletes files

https://boingboing.net/2026/01/05/everyone-hates-onedrive-microsofts-cloud-app-that-steals-then-deletes-all-your-files.html

#HackerNews #OneDrive #Microsoft #Cloud #Controversy #FileDeletion #TechNews

I'm migrating out my files of #OneDrive to #ProtonDrive to walk out from #BigTech and support other players #NoBigTech as well as support #EuropeanAlternatives

@ProtonDrive @protonprivacy
@european_alternatives
@ueeu

#EUSovereignity
#Sovereignity

Happy third Sunday in Advent! 🕯️

For the last... 5 years (or so), I tried multiple different personal photo and video management services and have now landed at Immich.

https://steffo.blog/i-switched-from-google-photos-to-immich/

I think it's really the best alternative I could find.

#blog #immich #google #onedrive #photos #nextcloud #synology #SynologyPhotos

Happy third Sunday in Advent! 🕯️

For the last... 5 years (or so), I tried multiple different personal photo and video management services and have now landed at Immich.

https://steffo.blog/i-switched-from-google-photos-to-immich/

I think it's really the best alternative I could find.

#blog #immich #google #onedrive #photos #nextcloud #synology #SynologyPhotos

I'm migrating out my files of #OneDrive to #ProtonDrive to walk out from #BigTech and support other players #NoBigTech as well as support #EuropeanAlternatives

@ProtonDrive @protonprivacy
@european_alternatives
@ueeu

#EUSovereignity
#Sovereignity

@heiseonline

Mit dem #Kirchengesetz
über den Einsatz von
einheitlicher #Informationstechnologie in der
Evangelisch-Lutherischen Kirche in #Norddeutschland, wird der Betrieb von #Microsoft 365 inklusive folgender Software: #Exchange, #SharePoint, #OneDrive, #Teams, #Office Anwendungen( #Word, #Excel, #PowerPoint, #OneNote, #Publisher, #Access, #Planner, ToDo, Forms)

für alle #Kirchengemeinden der #Nordkirche spätestens ab dem 1.1.2029 vorgeschrieben.

Good to hear your thoughts on this.

We also host Nextcloud for one client and also another instance for ourselves. I use it most for calendaring.

From here on out, though, we are looking for a different solution for "cloud" type file storage: an alternative to Microsoft OneDrive and Google Drive.

We are pretty confident we've found a good solution in OpenCloud, a fork of OwnCloud Infinite Scale. Need to do some more testing, though.

https://github.com/opencloud-eu

#opencloud #cloud #onedrive #googledrive #nextcloud

This feels like an odd UX decision. Never mind the privacy and choice of the account holder, how does this protect the privacy of people in the photos? There is no opt-out for them. #microsoft #onedrive #privacy #AI

@Privacymatters @pluralistic

This feels like an odd UX decision. Never mind the privacy and choice of the account holder, how does this protect the privacy of people in the photos? There is no opt-out for them. #microsoft #onedrive #privacy #AI

@Privacymatters @pluralistic

I love this comment on « Your Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward »

Cf. https://www.ghacks.net/2025/08/27/your-word-documents-will-be-saved-to-the-cloud-automatically-on-windows-going-forward/

#Microsoft#MSOffice#Privacy #SurveillanceCapitalism#PeopleFarming#OneDrive#Word#Enshittification

I love this comment on « Your Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward »

Cf. https://www.ghacks.net/2025/08/27/your-word-documents-will-be-saved-to-the-cloud-automatically-on-windows-going-forward/

#Microsoft#MSOffice#Privacy #SurveillanceCapitalism#PeopleFarming#OneDrive#Word#Enshittification

Microsoft announces that soon Microsoft Word for Windows will save documents to the cloud automatically by default (OneDrive "or your preferred cloud destination"). This could prevent data loss, but you can also disable autosave if you don't want it active. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microsoft365insiderblog/save-new-files-automatically-to-the-cloud-in-word-for-windows/4445216#Word#MSWord#Windows#MSOffice#OneDrive#Cloud

Good morning Fediverse's EU tech policy nerds!

Up today: the @EUCommission's #DMA workshop with #gatekeeper#Microsoft.

(Sorry #NGIForum25 two floors below, no time for you today 😌)

We haven't started yet and the room is still empty, but I'm hoping we'll discuss how #Windows is abused to dominate other markets, by aggressively nudging users to #Edge, #Xbox, #OneDrive, #ChatGPT, etc.

#DigitalMarketsAct#competition #antitrust#monopolies