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by zsazsak 781 days ago
Due to Windows 11 uploading all of my documents to their cloud without informed consent , for a second time, I'm heading to Linux.
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The dark side you have chosen! Using what distribution will you be? Hmm?
You're posting on HN, just disable this in group policy
The trick to that one is to never create or use a Microsoft account. They make it very hard to create a local Windows user account that exists only on your machine, and they tempt you into migrating your local account to a cloud based account, but it's very straightforward to never supply the email and password for a Microsoft account.

Uninstalling OneDrive every time they re-install it is annoying but also pretty simple.

How do you know they don't upload your docs anyways?