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Everyone hates OneDrive, Microsoft’s cloud app that steals then deletes all your files

Rob Beschizza
Jan 05, 2026
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OneDrive user finds out

OneDrive is Microsoft’s cloud-based storage service, and it’s aggressively pushed on users of Windows. They want your files on their servers, and are willing to use dark patterns to get them there. But this is par for the course, and OneDrive goes further: it not only ingests the user’s files, but dark patterns the user into delet…

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