This is Microsoft’s latest annoying addition to Windows.
Guess what else it’s doing without asking.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Microsoft now wants you to explain exactly why you’re attempting to close its OneDrive for Windows app before it allows you to do so.
Neowin has spotted that the latest update to OneDrive now includes an annoying dialog box that asks you to select the reason why you’re closing the app every single time you attempt to close OneDrive from the taskbar.
Microsoft has been pushing OneDrive in Windows for years, with it taking over the Documents and Pictures libraries in Windows 11 by default to sync files to Microsoft’s cloud-powered storage.
This new behavior follows years of Microsoft’s demanding Edge prompts that appear if you dare to download Chrome or change your default browser.
Hopefully, Microsoft won’t start injecting a poll at shutdown demanding to know why I’m turning my PC off for the day.
If you want to avoid this latest OneDrive nonsense, then feel free to open Task Manager, search for Microsoft OneDrive, and end that task the old-school way.
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Tech website won’t let you read article without a clickbait headline designed to cause rage.
I mean it’s not clickbait, thought, it’s exactly what’s happening, isn’t it? And it is rage inducing.
Lemmy won’t close unless users physically force it to! 😡
You must hate Lemmy now too! It’s exactly what’s happening right?
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Just lie. Give them junk data and make their analytics worse for annoying you. I have never been bothered by the “explain yourself” dropdowns because I just select a random option and move on.
See? That’s why i use third-party apps for almost everything since years, if i have to use Windows. Can’t trust these fuckers.
Do you use Dolphin as your file explorer?
Isn’t that a Linux filemanager? In Windows Q-dir or Explorer with “each in it’s own process” enabled, don’t get why this option isn’t default.
There’s a Windows version
Huh, cool!
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this alone is going to push me away from using it. I’m very petty like that. anyone have good alternatives?
I haven’t used their desktop program because I can upload files by myself… But I imagine MEGA wouldn’t do something like that.
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thank you good sir
Same reason why I refuse to use Edge. I don’t care if its the best browser in the world (which its not), the more you try to force me to use it, the less I’ll try it
Even Dropbox is better if you just want a hosted solution that does the same thing. I use syncthing as a self hosted version, I know Next cloud is popular too.
Dropbox is just too expensive for me. I have nearly a TB of data on there. I’d use Dropbox if it wasn’t so expensive
Smb network share, tailscale mesh VPN.
it’s like you never left the house.
I like filen.io pretty good so far
Ty!
And this is one of many reasons I’m glad I dumped Microsoft (and Apple, actually) when I did my last tech refresh.
Does it feel better to have done that, or does it feel better to tell people about it? I still use windows with what it’s good at. And I’ll use the rest for what they are good at. Brand loyalty is stupid.
Brand loyalty is stupid.
How dare you mention leaving windows. I use windows!Yes… Brand loyalty is stupid. So maybe look in that mirror before commenting dude.
I still use Microsoft at my day job, but MY tech refresh was Linux-based because privacy is important to my clients. Both Microsoft and Apple are bad at consumer / small business privacy so I moved to a platform that is not in the business of turning my data into marketing profiles.
Always one that comes in hot, I swear.
It actually does feel better to have done that; it’s unironically lifechanging to go to Linux as a daily driver.
Linux is not a brand; it’s not represented by any company, and, open-source as it is, it just doesn’t allow for the sort of shenanigans Microsoft or Apple are employing against their users.
The reason we are saying again and again to switch to Linux is because it really solves all those problems. Linux is good for desktop; run it as your main system (not a VM) for a week, and feel the difference yourself. Go with Manjaro, or Linux Mint, and amaze yourself.
Linux is most definitely a brand. One that is actively marketed. The fact that the marketing is done by volunteers doesn’t change that fact.
Linux doesn’t represent a company; besides, it’s not even an OS to begin with, it’s a kernel. And people recommend it because it is good and because most people have “Windows = computer” in their head, which is actively harmful for everyone and is a real form of unconscious brand loyalty.
Them: I ditched [brand] because their product wasn’t a good fit for me
You: Stop talking about your tech product choices! What do you think this is, a public forum where people talk about technology?? Brand loyalty is stupid, but also I’m annoyed that you left Windows. I use Windows btw.
I feel like the EU needs to get on top of this
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The Verge really had a hard on for bashing Microsoft doesn’t it?
People here have a big hate boner for Microsoft. I’m with you, this is such a non issue that doesn’t affect anyone, people just like to scream at things I guess. I await an explanation on how selecting a drop down absolutely destroyed productivity or usability.
Not as much as they do for Google.
Microsoft has a hard on for making shit just that much more difficult. The Verge is just reporting on it.
I’m okay with this as long as one of the options is
“Because fuck you, that’s why.”
Literally what I write in every "Other reason: " box any time some rando software decides to entitle itself the privilege to open up browser pages on my machine.
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Extra points for using Microsoft products to do this.
Fortunately, I run my own Batcloud, so I don’t have OneDrive installed.
what’s batcloud? I have heard of
next loudnextcloud but notbadcloudbatcloudedit: fix spelling as I’m typing on mobile
Proud of you, Bruce
Because suck-it thats why.
Hey, Lemmy user in this thread: you’re likely in the top 0.1% expertise of all computer users worldwide.
This prompt is aimed at my boomer dad, who wouldn’t know what that funny icon is but read somewhere to close his apps for better speed. If his OneDrive docs disappear, I’ll get a call about it. At the same time, Microsoft probably can’t sell anything to my dad ever again, except his Office 365 subscription, so that makes him the product.
Microsoft is usually pretty good at letting tech users disable this kind of stuff with powershell commands or registry keys, which you already know how to do. And of course businesses join windows PCs to domains and disable this stuff centrally too.
