Kevin Beaumont
GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social
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lol, a way to bypass the Microsoft account requirement in Windows 11 - type username no@thankyou.com, any password, and it bumps you to local account creation.
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@GossiTheDog Have you tried this? https://www.grc.com/incontrol.htm
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EvilKiru 🇮🇸 he/him
EvilKiru@techhub.social@GossiTheDog Did Windows 11 remove the option to skip over using a Microsoft account on the dialog prior to the add your Microsoft account dialog that Windows 10 had?
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@GossiTheDog I like to think it's performing a politeness check and rewarding you for the "thank you".
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@GossiTheDog used it recently, can confirm it works.
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Why Not Zoidberg? 🦑
@GossiTheDog I got past it last week by getting to the screen requesting it, pressing shift+f10 to bring up a command prompt, then doing a dhcp release (ipconfig /release), followed by hitting the back arrow. I was then able to create a local account.
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@GossiTheDog That or you can do shift + f10 then OOBE\BYPASSNRO (with internet off), but yeah I don't like the direction MS is headed in. Especially when studies suggest more identifiers are sent with telemetry logged in than with a local account.
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@GossiTheDog a little bizarre considering Microsoft don't even own thankyou.com
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@GossiTheDog it's incredibly infuriating if you were unaware of this little bypass.
About an hour and a half yelling about the bastards at Microsoft until I found a forum post for someone mentioning that trick lol.
Technology is moving in reverse.
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@EvilKiru @GossiTheDog
Yes, they did. Now you need to try logging in as a nonexistent account to get around it. But they will never rest until they trick you into turning on the rich flow of customer data and force you into entering their sales funnel. Get out that credit card!
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@GossiTheDog I think the dark pattern they use is, you enter any random email, click next, the click Back, then they show you local account options. This though is just taking the pi**...
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@JaxxAI @GossiTheDog nothing to do with the domain. You can register a MS account with your own email address, that's what that is. a@a.com is also (not) working and blocked now, so the account tool is skipping because of the blocked account error and let's you create an offline account as a fallback. But very annoying they again removed the option to do that ina regular way without having to use such measures.
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@fellows @GossiTheDog this is not how computers should work....
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🦊.rawr => lambda yip: yap(yip)
indrora@vulpine.club@jwatts @GossiTheDog After working with machines that have touched GRCs software I now outright consider it malware.
In this case, many security updates are brought in as preparation for a major feature release. What he says on his website is patently false (A lot of people don't get feature updates because of known and discovered issues) and how it does it is through undocumented regkeys, not group policy (as it should be done).
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Kay Ohtie 🎈🌵🐺
ceralor@blimps.xyz@indrora @jwatts @GossiTheDog I hate that the weird concern noise about feature update packages have prompted "I pirated Windows XP"-era update paranoia from people again.
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Charlotte/Cinny 
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@indrora @jwatts @GossiTheDog also it feels kinda unrelated, as this appears to be windows OOBE which is run before you have any chance of installing any 3rd party software (minus drivers)
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@GossiTheDog I don't want to be those fools that fight against change but win11 is shit in my eyes and I will avoid upgrading unless absolutely necessary
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@drakealexe @GossiTheDog I have no desire to switch to 11 and have never tried to, yet Windows continues to make a point of telling me that computer does not the requirements for upgrading. I know it doesn't and I don't it to, so stop acting like I do, Windows
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Kellic Tiger 
KellicTiger@tiggi.es
What pisses me off most is that I MIGHT expect this behavior if someone didn't buy the OS. And simply took the upgrade from MS. Nothing on the planet is free. So you get what you pay for. But when I buy a damn license that is a Pro no less. Then I should have full control over what I install and what telemetry they send home. I payed for it. I should control it. Period. End of story. This goes for 10 and 11.
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@GossiTheDog where and how did you even stumble upon this lmao
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@GossiTheDog doesn't seem to work for me hmmm
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@cR0w @GossiTheDog I actually don't think this is an intended feature - as in, this email is not what causes the account fallback.
Apparently this local account creation can still be triggered if the account is locked due to too many retries on Microsoft's end, so it can technically be any email that you'll have to sacrifice by spamming it with password attempts.
Either that, or it was a legitimate bypass at some point and is no longer the case in current Windows 11 builds.
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