• dinckel@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Why is it never the other way around? I’m sick of EULA updates silently enrolling me into things i never asked for

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        3 days ago

        And we’ll just watch them either get slapped by an insignificant fine, or watch them weasel their way out of this again, by claiming they made you agree to some perpetual abandonment of rights, like they always do

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        3 days ago

        it says you need to hace smart features on for this to work. I went looking for how to turno it off, but aparentoy in the EU, UK, Japan and others it’s off by default

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      Plus the options are frequently hidden and unclear.

      I thought disabling One Drive on my Windows machine would keep it from syncing to the cloud. Nope, it just changed where the files were stored but Windows copies it to One Drive even when One Drive isn’t running.

      In the case of google, I assume that turning off the Gemini bullshit doesn’t have any impact on it copying all the content to their servers even if you don’t see it happening.

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        but Windows copies it to One Drive even when One Drive isn’t running.

        I don’t understand why users and our justice system let them get away with this. This is malicious. Your operating system is literally literally malware. It does not respect your choices and it steals your information.

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          That’s just untrue though, onedrive doesn’t work like that. I’m not saying Microsoft doesnt steal data either, but onedrive isn’t required for that. In fact it can suck so hard it won’t sync shit while running.

          Defender can literally submit anything it wants to Microsoft by default and doesn’t hide it.

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      3 days ago

      to shove it in people’s faces who would never go out of their way to turn it on. probably like 99% of people.

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      Maybe the even more important question: Why can you even opt out? Why is this not done on-device, without anything going anywhere to begin with?

      I mean, I know the answer, you know the answer, everyone knows the answer. If this was truly privacy preserving, there would be no need to opt out.