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Comment on: Microsoft is employing dark patterns to goad users into paying for storage?
Not that it's any excuse, but Apple does something similar by saving your photos to iCloud and deleting them from your local storage without telling you.I have seen the following scenario play out twice already:- The free iCloud tier runs out of storage because of the photo backups- Apple spams the user with warning notifications and emails and incentives to upgrade- User sees that nonsense and decides they don't really need iCloud backups (sometimes they didn't even know it was on) and turn it off- But oops, turns out iOS had "helpfully" removed the original photos from the local device to "s