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The extra fun part is when it starts bitching at you for filling up the cloud storage allotment that you didn’t know you were using.

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Or when it actually deleted the local files once it uploaded them to one drive. Fun times.

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Or the fact that once it’s off of your hard drive and sitting comfortably on their cloud (their hard drive), they can scan it and harvest it for data.

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OMG this happened to a colleague of mine and they deleted the files from OneDrive without realizing they weren’t on their hard drive anymore 🤦

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Thankfully I noticed what was going on before it got to that point, but when they start vacuuming up all your files and data like that without telling you and without giving you control over it, you kind of have to assume that whatever is going on is not being done for your benefit.

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The extra extra fun part is to then offer you the opportunity to pay for bigger storage!

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The cherry on top, you can’t say no. You can only tell them to “ask you later”.

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At least they’re being honest with that. You know they’d keep asking you after choosing “no”.

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I got a great idea.

While we’re sucking up every single file, let’s also do daily, non incremental backups

We’ll hit the free storage limit it no time and then we can start sending DIRE messages about how the users data won’t be PROPERLY backed up anymore.

Then we can upsell them in an outrageously priced storage plan that won’t even last a year of these daily backups so we can start the process over again.

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It’d be hilarious if they did that but your paid for space was too low so they had to cut you off but they had already taken the liberty to delete the files before they synched

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