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This is a community for designs specifically crafted to make the experience worse for the user. This can be due to greed, apathy, laziness or just downright scumbaggery.

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Paid for MS Excel out of the goodness of my heart so now I get this popup every 2 hours... (lemmy.world)
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[–] Raxiel 2 points 1 year ago

Yes, you have to opt in.
I use a Microsoft account for my user profile, and recently reinstalled windows. I didn't choose the account backup and so despite signing back into the same account, the encrypted partitions on my non-boot drives could only be unlocked by pasting the key in directly, there wasn't an option to restore it.