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I just noticed this, and so this happened to a few friends of mine.
I am familiar with dark patterns, and read carefully and I though I had dodged all Microsoft attempts at trying to register me into their online system, but somehow they got me.
I think you can still use Windows without having an online account. But this pattern is similar to Apple having your logged on to your Apple/iCloud account when using your devices.
Can you provide details of what you found and how?
As I said, I pay a lot of attention into not falling into Microsoft's dark patterns, but somehow I did and my local account became an online one. I am wondering if this has happened to others too.
What do you mean? How is this a problem? I think you can still use Windows without having an online account. But this pattern is similar to Apple having your logged on to your Apple/iCloud account when using your devices.
Android is straight forward and doesn't insist every single time into drafting you with tricky dialogs.
I think I know what you are referring to. When setting up my new laptop Windows was asking me to sign in with an account. This step could apparently be skipped (a friend told me later) but I didn't notice at the time. I just formatted everything and installed Linux.
You have to be disconnected from wifi and Ethernet to be offered the option of a local account. This was removed in 11.
You have to be disconnected from wifi and Ethernet to be offered the option of a local account. This was removed in 11.
Not entirely, you can open a terminal and input a command to bypass it. It is kind of ironic, though, considering "open a terminal and input a command" is usually considered to be a take-that against GNU/Linux.