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> I would swear I removed copilot from a Dell laptop I just purchased for my father, and it came back after a major update. I could be wrong.

I've had feature-update crapware get reinstalled twice, some reinsallations happen only after a reboot and/or 5-10min delay. So upgrade, clean. Reboot, clean again. Reboot, wait 10 min, clean again.

This during the last year and for dozens of machines.

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OneDrive is very persistent. Every major upgrade seems like.

Didn't they get hauled in front of congress for stuff like this back in the 90's?

I feel like they are playing with fire. Once anti-trust comes back into vogue, this is going to be big trouble for them.

OneDrive is a love/hate relationship for me. Yeah, it’s invasive. But it’s private [1], secure, and cheap (relatively) file storage. And very few of its competitors integrate into Windows Explorer in the way OneDrive does (even though the APIs are all there for everyone to use).

[1] OneDrive privacy confirmed by my own consumer complaint to the Washington State Office of the Attorney General over ambiguities related to AI training and general privacy in Microsoft’s documentation. Both my complaint and Microsoft’s official response are subject to public record and can be legally actionable in the future.

I'd love to read more about it - I have privacy concerns about ever giving anything personal over to Microsoft. Can you link those?

The WA AG's office doesn't typically post that stuff in a searchable format online. You'd have to run a public records request. But I guarantee it's there in some form.

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