[Arainach]

Forcing a cloud login for a desktop operating system is arguably a dark pattern.

Defaulting to uploading all locally saved documents to cloud storage is ABSOLUTELY a dark pattern.

The prompts every few months to "change back to recommended defaults" that make it easy to accidentally get into this state even if you made the correct decision previously to turn it off is a hellish black hole of a pattern.

All three are intentional, not incompetent.

[rk06]

I heard somewhere that Onedrive goes one step further, i.e. deleting local files and keeping them only in cloud. so when people delete file from onedrive, they find local files already deleted