stopthatgirl7 to Technology@lemmy.world • 8 months agoMicrosoft won’t let you close OneDrive on Windows until you explain yourselfwww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square235fedilinkarrow-up11.22Kfile-textcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.mlhackernews@lemmy.smeargle.fansglobalnews@lemmy.ziphackernews@derp.foo
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minus-squareStevelinkfedilinkEnglish52•8 months agoFirst with Chrome, now with OneDrive. What exactly are they trying to do with these “explanations” aside from annoying their user base?
minus-square@AdmiralShat@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglish33•8 months agoI suppose they think they can gather more information on user habits and user interaction with onedrive to determine how to reduce user loss.
minus-square@Isycius@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglish11•8 months agoIf so, they should pay for Q/A and/or focus testing themselves. Not freeload off from forcing users. I can already see that this won’t gather them any data that is actually useful for analysis.
minus-square@knotthatone@lemmy.onelinkfedilinkEnglish13•8 months agoPushing subscriptions and vendor lock-in. They harass you to use OneDrive so they can later harass you to pony up for a 365 subscription.
minus-square@0x2d@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglish1•8 months agothe enshittification of chrome sucks since i used to love it
First with Chrome, now with OneDrive. What exactly are they trying to do with these “explanations” aside from annoying their user base?
I suppose they think they can gather more information on user habits and user interaction with onedrive to determine how to reduce user loss.
If so, they should pay for Q/A and/or focus testing themselves. Not freeload off from forcing users.
I can already see that this won’t gather them any data that is actually useful for analysis.
it’s barrier to exit
Guilt tripping.
Pushing subscriptions and vendor lock-in. They harass you to use OneDrive so they can later harass you to pony up for a 365 subscription.
the enshittification of chrome sucks since i used to love it