There have been multiple accounts created with the sole purpose of posting advertisement posts or replies containing unsolicited advertising.

Accounts which solely post advertisements, or persistently post them may be terminated.

NeoNachtwaechter ,

I can’t imagine anybody does something else than click randomly, just to make it go away LOL

otter ,

Yea what do they think will happen, someone will go “you know what maybe I don’t have a good reason to close this”

theredhood ,

What made me stop using onedrive was when they put that giant “start backup” button in Windows explorer.

evatronic ,

This whole situation is kind of sad. OneDrive is pretty good as a synced file system for Windows machines. It really does just sort of “work”.

I wish they’d left it alone.

Valmond ,

CEO: but maybe there is some more money to be extracted from it for the next quarter?

PixeIOrange ,

Maybe a stupid question: How do they make money of private files being hosted on their server?

Valmond ,

There are paid options I guess?

It also ties all the “365” applications together locking out the competition.

Also for training AI possibly.

Edit: for the crap questions I guess it’s information to hone in on “better/higher” prices.

helenslunch ,
@helenslunch@feddit.nl avatar

Data is the new oil. Any number of things they can do with your data so they want it, bad.

i_am_hiding ,

It really does just sort of “work”.

“Sorry, there was a problem. (Error code 0x0000fkn69)”

Nothing Microsoft makes ever works.

autotldr Bot ,

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Microsoft being annoying about ads, forced surveys, or pushy polls is nothing new.

These appeared in the guise of ‘notifications’ repeatedly convincing users to start using Microsoft’s services such as OneDrive.

Again, these came in the form of not-so-gentle reminders that insisted you start using, for instance, Microsoft 365.

Every time you quit OneDrive on your PC, you must take a survey on why you chose to close the app.

At the bottom, the usual ‘Cancel’ option would take you back to using this case if you change your mind about closing it.

I’m sure that Microsoft hopes data from these surveys will have some value in helping improve the OneDrive experience.

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