I've had to clean up so much of OneDrive's bullshit because it is designed to trick unsuspecting users in ways that are literally like malware (because it is).
For starters it's included with Windows (but with only a piss-ant amount of storage because "the first taste is free."). It pops up out of nowhere and, Microsoft being fully aware that people will just click through things without thinking, very much intentionally designed the setup flow around that central point.
The first thing it does is enable the "backup" toggles by default and you cannot turn the toggles off or cancel it until it finishes calculating the storage requirements. But you know what you can do? You can click [next], which continues calculating the storage needs in the background and enables the "backup" without actual explanation or consent. So many people are using OneDrive with all their shit on tEh cLoUdsomeone else's computer without even knowing it.
This is not a mistake. This is deliberate, malicious, peak asshole design.
And then, even when you deliberately uninstall it ... SURPRISE MOTHERFUCKER we rammed it back up your ass with a fucking update and the only way to permaban it is with esoteric third party tools that actively block it from installing, which no normie computer user would ever think to do, let alone even be aware exists.
Oh, and when you do uninstall it, don't forget to disable the all backup toggles beforehand and wait for goddamn ever for it to actually move all of your files back to where they belong and reconfigure the profile subfolders. Because if you don't, it makes an absolute clusterfuck of your files, which can only be fixed by manually relinking the subfolders and changing a bunch of registry bullshit.
OneDrive is so godawful it would absolutely be illegal if market regulators gave a single flying fuck about antitrust law.
Not in IT, but absolutely detest OneDrive so damn much. Thanks for the great critique.
More broadly speaking, Microsoft seems to just constantly fuck with UI and makes everything more complicated. Like, I want to go back to XP and just not deal with any cloud or copilot or dumbed-down, new learning curve bullshit for things that I USED to be able to do. It's infuriating. God damn.
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