Comment by a2128
3 days ago
If this is the true reason, then they have made some poor decisions throughout that still deserve criticism. Firstly by restricting the number of times you can turn it _off_ rather than _on_, secondly by not explaining the reason in the linked pages, and thirdly by having their publicist completely refuse to say a word on the matter.
In fact, if you follow the linked page, you'll find a screenshot showing it was originally worded differently, "You can only change this setting 3 times a year" dating all the way back to 2023. So at some point someone made a conscious decision to change the wording to restrict the number of times you can turn it _off_
Maybe what they see is that most people who turn it off will leave it off, but some people turn it off and turn it back on as a part of a pattern/habit around temporarily putting files on OneDrive they don't want to scan.
For example, people who don't use their encrypted vault on OneDrive, so they upload photos that should otherwise be encrypted to their normal OneDrive which gets scanned and tagged. It could be a photo of their driver's license, social security card, or something illicit.
So these users toggle the tagging feature on and off during this time.
Maybe the idea is to push these people's use case to the vault where it probably belongs?