Comment on Windows 11 is now automatically enabling OneDrive folder backup without asking permission
abrahambelch@programming.dev 2 months agoIt’s not an Apple fanboy but imo it’s a lot more transparent on their side. There’s a switch for each and every service to use iCloud or not in the settings. Services don’t just re-enable their usage of iCloud after some random update and most importantly, they don’t just re-install apps you previously deleted. Or bloatware.
Moonrise2473@feddit.it 2 months ago
Yes, it doesn’t get re enabled but I totally hate that annoying red dot on settings if you don’t set iCloud
B0rax@feddit.de 2 months ago
That red dot should disappear if you disable iCloud (yes, it is different from not setting it up… it is not good, but you can get rid of it)
princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Oh no, an annoying red dot. Microsoft are straight up hoovering up users data into the cloud by automatically enabling syncing. These two things are not even close to the same.
Moonrise2473@feddit.it 2 months ago
it’s a dark pattern deliberately chosen to let people get annoyed and pay for icloud. On windows people instead will accidentally fill their onedrive account and that’s it. They won’t even know that they’re using it. It might send some scary emails like “your cloud backup is full!!!11 you gonna lose everything!!111” but those go directly in spam. Error messages in windows for regular users appear like “����� �������� �����������” - their eyes don’t have the right encoding to understand the message, so they just click OK and dismiss it. Instead, the red dot is prominent in the home screen of every iphone and bother also those that don’t read the error messages…
princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Wow. I genuinely can’t believe people are upvoting you for this. Like yeah, I super agree it’s a dark pattern. Stealing people’s data is WAY worse though, uploading potentially sensitive photos or documents to their cloud with no user input. But according to you that’s fine because it’s less obtrusive and annoying? Yeesh I’m glad I don’t have your priorities.
eveninghere@beehaw.org 2 months ago
I really like Jobs-era Apple and hate M$, but didn’t feel the urge to defend A this time.