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Microsoft's OneDrive Begins Testing Face-Recognizing AI for Photos (for Some Preview Users) - Slashdot
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Windows 11 is pushing OneDrive and Copilot hard. There are OneDrive sections in many Microsoft apps, not just Office365. Tweaking settings to never (offer) saving to OneDrive has little effect.
The best way to avoid OneDrive is to avoid Microsoft apps, ideally get rid of Windows.
Office 365 requiring OneDrive to auto save is so dumb, I’m pretty sure all other text editors let you do it without any sort of cloud sync, let alone using the first-party provider. Then you have the requirement to sign into a Microsoft account to use Windows, forcing a dedicated Microsoft CoPilot key on laptop keyboards (it should have been a keyboard shortcut or something!), defaulting to Edge, Outlook, and Bing search, pushing Office 365 subscriptions in the SETTINGS page, the full screen ads for Win11 in Win10, the list goes on. If we had good consumer protection laws, none of this would be allowed…
It’s not just Microsoft, of course, I can say the same about Apple and Google for their respective operating systems.
Just checked, yep, LibreOffice has an option for autosave. No cloud sync provider needed…as it should be…
Regular old word without Copilot now has AI auto alt text generation for images. Desktop word, save on One drive, with copilot blocked at the firewall.