Discovered something horrific while doing support for a tech illiterate friend. Was trying to go to the desktop folder in explorer but C:\Users\Name\Desktop was nowhere to be found. Instead it was at C:\Users\Name\OneDrive\Desktop.

[–] Hexboare@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago

Pretty common for corpo staff

Usually means you can exfil heaps of stuff though

[–] Azarova@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago

and it requires registry edits to fix them back to normal agony-shivering

[–] roux@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So like I have to assume that this is the case for a large amount of Windows users. Doesn't this essentially put everyone's Home directory at a single point of failure?

[–] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I wouldn't put it that way. I assume they are only doing it by default for some folders like ~\Desktop, ~\Documents etc. For the average user this "feature" must be transparent in the sense that mostly you won't notice that this "feature" is in effect. Just that the onedrive daemon is gonna be syncing changes to these folders to the cloud. They will only notice this "feature" when they get a notification saying that their cloud storage is running out of space to sell them a subscription to expanded storage space.

[–] Tom742@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago

They will only notice this "feature" when they get a notification saying that their cloud storage is running out of space to sell them a subscription to expanded storage space.

Exactly my experience.

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago

Yep.

That "OneDrive" shit is like so many things techbro: creepy, intrusive, deceptive, and doesn't respect consent. kombucha-disgust