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The impudence of Microsoft has reached new (criminal?) heights

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BravoV:
Just don't understand the mentality of keep using Windows, but naively pretending one can tweak/hack or do what so ever to shutdown the telemetry, while still connected to the net (not air gapped), cmon, wake up or at least grow up.  :palm:

duckduck:

--- Quote from: BravoV on August 06, 2020, 05:46:20 pm ---Just don't understand the mentality of keep using Windows, but naively pretending one can tweak/hack or do what so ever to shutdown the telemetry, while still connected to the net (not air gapped), cmon, wake up or at least grow up.  :palm:

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Agree. Windows is a privacy nightmare. If you choose to/must use Windows you can check out use the app from https://wpd.app/ to disable what you can.

NiHaoMike:

--- Quote from: rdl on August 06, 2020, 04:29:03 pm ---What's even worse is, they keep you from saving the hosts file if you try to add something they don't like.

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What happens if you boot into a Linux live distro to edit it, then set the file to read only?

--- Quote from: peter-h on August 06, 2020, 05:40:24 pm ---Block telemetry servers in a router firewall? Even cheap routers can do this.

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Or connect Windows to a network that only has proxy access. Then set up the proxy in only the apps you want connected. Could even be done using VMs.

bd139:
Apparently the EU are going to give them an arse kicking on this shortly. Fingers crossed.

Red Squirrel:
The more I read on Windows 10 the more I absolutely don't want it on my network.  I do have a Windows 7 machine for gaming but even that is on a separate vlan now.  Discord requires you to forward thousands of UDP ports for it to work, which is horrible design, and I did not like the idea of forwarding that many ports to a machine on my main network so I put it on a separate vlan, which is a good idea anyway.

Not even surprised that they are blocking attempts to edit the host file, best to block the telemetry stuff at the firewall.   If you use a proxy make sure it's password protected, as Windows might be smart enough to detect and use it.   I would also avoid using IE as if yo configure the proxy in it, even if it's password protected it will probably be able to then have Windows itself use it for telemetry.


--- Quote from: bd139 on August 06, 2020, 10:19:42 pm ---Apparently the EU are going to give them an arse kicking on this shortly. Fingers crossed.

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That should be interesting.

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