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Imagine using cloud services without encrypting your data.

& like probably every storage service the opt out toggle is an absolute lie

I mean not providing a service because you stopped paying the cost you agreed to for the service is quite different from forcibly destroying random people's data if they don't give you as much money as you demand

It's not like they remotely connect to your pc and wipe your hard drive if you don't pay up

I’ve never seen this be the case.

For the most part, the files still exist in the local filesystem unless one uses the “free up space” function to unload files to the cloud.

Where users have ended a subscription, they have become unable to add content to the cloud storage, which is to be expected. I’ve never been unable to download a file, it effectively goes into read-only mode.

Why is that weird? With self-storage companies, if you don't pay the rental fee, they hold your stored items until you do. That's calles a business model, but if someone breaks into my house and steals my items, that's called theft. It's not weird how that works because one involves signing a contract and you have say in the other.

Weird how consent works

My demands are smaller so I just do syncthing to a server

My workplace uses SharePoint and it makes me want to gouge my eyes out. Come to think of it, all the Microsoft Enterprise products have that effect on me.

Things like these are why I insist in not having an email associated to windows.

The problem with onedrive is now when you visit your parents for tech support, all their important stuff is on the "hard drive called one drive", since Windows now just makes it look the same as a hard drive on your computer. And once that hard drive fills up, which will be pretty fast with default settings, then it starts asking them to pay money, or their important files will be lost... at their level of technical skill, that is basically the legal version of those scams that encrypt your files and then extort you to unencrypt them.

For those of us who know what is going on, it's only a mild inconvenience. Just gotta put less agressive back up settings on and remove anything from onedrive that isn't needed. But think about what it's like for all the people who would get themselves into that situation and don't have someone that could fix it for them. They either pay onedrive the extortion money, lose those files, or take the computer to someone to fix it for a cost. Why make those the default settings? Why not even pop up like a selection of default settings with a short description of what to expect from each selection. But it would cost more money and generate less, so no matter how user-friendly it would be, the only way it'll happen is under court order.

Edit: also for any of us that use windows professional, alot of these problems will seem foreign to us. Of course, all the predatory stuff is exclusive to windows home edition. That's the one where they are agreeing to have a bad time because it made the computer they bought in the store look cheaper than the one next to it.

If it was turn on or off I'd be fine with it. But it's forced and even the default if you go to the backup app. All your local files are stored in a OneDrive folder with subfolders like desktop under OneDrive.

If it had a standard API so I could use my NAS instead of MS cloud it would be amazing.

My biggest frustration with OneDrive is in combination with Office (on my work PC). You browse to a local folder and save, but instead of saving it locally and syncing to the cloud, it saves to the cloud and downloads, and it is slow.