Utter insanity that this can happen in a major OS. I switched to Linux for personal use years ago and have only gotten more grateful for that decision over time. My head would explode if a Linux distro tried any number of things that Windows regularly does to abuse their users, it's unfathomable.
Holy shit that's nuts!
- I search for and buy something, they keep showing me ads for the thing I don't need anymore.
- I check out some random product, they all think if they just show me one more ad with that product, I will surely buy it.
While I am not immune to ads and they help with brand recognition, it can sometimes serve opposite purpose than intended.
It has been this way for 3 years.
This is why local backups should always have the highest priority.
Storing online can be useful, but people should never forget that local backups are the best.
The problem is that on a fresh system with a free MS account, OneDrive shows up as the first choice as “$User - Personal files”. No notice that this actually only stores it online and offers only a fraction of the 1TB local drive.
Truly deceptive and my mistake for not noticing when I helped to set up that laptop.