Microsoft really wants you to use a Microsoft account on Windows, to the point where it won't tell you how to make a Local one.
  • Microsoft removes guide on converting Microsoft accounts to Local, pushing for Microsoft sign-ins.
  • Instructions once available, now missing - likely due to company’s preference for Microsoft accounts.
  • People may resist switching to Microsoft accounts for privacy reasons, despite company’s stance.
  • cRazi_man@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    vor 5 Monaten

    People don’t know and don’t care. Privacy isn’t an issue on anyone’s mind (just like climate wasn’t 20 years ago). People don’t know or care about digital media ownership issues.

    • kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      1·
      vor 5 Monaten

      People know, they see their digital media being removed from them and they know that their devices spy on them. Everyone talks about it yet nobody cares.

      • elephantium@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        vor 4 Monaten

        I disagree. I think it’s more helplessness than apathy.

        I don’t approve of all the spying, but I don’t “own” any congress critters, so what can I do? I can’t even opt out of the spying by cancelling my Internet plan and smashing my phone – there’s still tracking through CCTV, face recognition, license plate scanners, etc. I’d have to move to some remote middle of nowhere and live as a subsistence farmer – and even on the way there, I’d be thoroughly tracked. There’s no escape, it’s like we’re all in a giant digital cage.