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Be careful with this! From the README under the "HOSTS" section: "Append known tracking domains to the HOSTS file located in C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc"

by nerdy 11y ago

Be careful with this! From the README under the "HOSTS" section: "Append known tracking domains to the HOSTS file located in C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc" However there are other articles which suggest changing the hosts file can cause instability[1]: "Of course, the first thing that comes to mind is disabling communication with these servers (by introducing the server into the hosts file and settings to 127.0.0.1 localhost), but as I tried, after disabling the Windows 10 start acting suspiciously otherwise. Error messages pop up, sometimes the message of "service failure", there are problems with Skype, it is not possible to maintain a stable connection. The problem is with VPN connections that fall. But it is possible that this is just some incompatibilities and nevyladěnost new OS. Apparently, it is necessary not to prohibit certain sites and have available to make things work, but I had no time to analyze them one by one, what causes them off in the long run in Windows 10" Of course, there are a whole bunch of other potentially dangerous things the tool does like change services and edit the registry. Take care! [1] https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=cs&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Faeronet.cz%2Fnews%2Fanalyza-windows-10-ve-svem-principu-jde-o-pouhy-terminal-na-sber-informaci-o-uzivateli-jeho-prstech-ocich-a-hlasu%2F https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=cs&tl=en&u=h...

userbinator 11y ago
I'm not surprised that MS is making it harder to disable these things. It should be possible to patch them out completely, but then you also have to deal with signing, system file protection, and updates which could re-enable them again... MS is putting up a much stronger fight now than they did with the previous versions of Windows.
- gr3yh47 11y ago
  if something is free, you are not the customer, you are the product
  - naringas 11y ago
    Windows 10 is not free, it's a free upgrade for customers that already payed for a previous version.
    - userbinator 11y ago
      ...which is unlike all the previous versions of Windows.
    - naringas 11y ago
      paid
  - joshuapants 11y ago
    Windows 10 is not free. The cost is built-in to the hardware you buy. They threw their users a bone to get some goodwill and hopefully entice some of them off old OSes, but the OS is not free, and this canard needs to stop. Linux is free. Do you mean to imply that Linux is nothing more than an advertising/tracking platform? I pay for cable TV, so I guess I'm not the product there right? Oh wait, even though I pay the real money comes from being able to direct my eyeballs at ads. The world is not that simple, and I keep seeing people parrot this exact line at everything. It is applicable in some cases and not in others, so don't whip it to death.
    - FilterSweep 11y ago
      That's comparing enterprised apples to open-sourced oranges.
      - tarpherder 11y ago
        Yes, but the comment above his simplifies both into "fruit" so it's valid to call it out on that.
  - dudus 11y ago
    119.99 for the Home version and 199.99 for the Pro version. http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/en_US/pdp/Windows-10-Home/productID.319937100 http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/en_US/pdp/Windows-... http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/en_US/pdp/Windows-10-Pro/productID.319935900 http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/en_US/pdp/Windows-...
    - jebblue 11y ago
      Yep, my restore disk set had a bad disk (and I paid for them too which sucks) so since it was the Home version and I thought I might need stuff that Windows 10 Pro has I went for pro, cost me $200 bucks. I got my license on Amazon. I thought about getting an MSDN subscription but not sure how the licensing works these days for the OS's it includes (it used to be fairly complicated years ago). Edit: I used smile.amazon.com so money is contributed to my charity, the American Heart Association.
  - jevgeni 11y ago
    FOSS?
  - fluidcruft 11y ago
    ??? Windows is not gratis and has tracking. GNU is gratis and has no tracking.
  - drcube 11y ago
    MTV isn't free. Paying customers are still their product.
- atburrow 11y ago
  Blocking at the router level could work. I figure if you have multiple PCs on the network, it could also be easier to maintain.
  - mondoshawan 11y ago
    The problem with this is that unless you're doing deep packet inspection, they can patch the system to route every call through the same frontend IP -- including services you actually want to use. It'll work for the short term, but probably not long term -- doubly so if they just route everything over HTTP.
timmytokyo 11y ago
This is a list of the domains added by the script to the hosts file: adnxs.com, c.msn.com, g.msn.com, h1.msn.com, msedge.net, rad.msn.com, ads.msn.com, adnexus.net, ac3.msn.com, c.atdmt.com, m.adnxs.com, rad.msn.com, sO.2mdn.net, ads1.msn.com, ec.atdmt.com, flex.msn.com, rad.live.com, ui.skype.com, msftncsi.com, a-msedge.net, a.rad.msn.com, b.rad.msn.com, cdn.atdmt.com, m.hotmail.com, ads1.msads.net, a.ads1.msn.com, a.ads2.msn.com, apps.skype.com, b.ads1.msn.com, view.atdmt.com, watson.live.com, preview.msn.com, aidps.atdmt.com, preview.msn.com, static.2mdn.net, a.ads2.msads.net, b.ads2.msads.net, db3aqu.atdmt.com, secure.adnxs.com, www.msftncsi.com, cs1.wpc.v0cdn.net, live.rads.msn.com, ad.doubleclick.net, bs.serving-sys.com, a-0001.a-msedge.net, pricelist.skype.com, a-0001.a-msedge.net, a-0002.a-msedge.net, a-0003.a-msedge.net, a-0004.a-msedge.net, a-0005.a-msedge.net, a-0006.a-msedge.net, a-0007.a-msedge.net, a-0008.a-msedge.net, a-0009.a-msedge.net, choice.microsoft.com, watson.microsoft.com, feedback.windows.com, aka-cdn-ns.adtech.de, cds26.ams9.msecn.net, lb1.www.ms.akadns.net, corp.sts.microsoft.com, az361816.vo.msecnd.net, az512334.vo.msecnd.net, telemetry.microsoft.com, msntest.serving-sys.com, secure.flashtalking.com, telemetry.appex.bing.net, pre.footprintpredict.com, pre.footprintpredict.com, vortex.data.microsoft.com, statsfe2.ws.microsoft.com, statsfe1.ws.microsoft.com, df.telemetry.microsoft.com, oca.telemetry.microsoft.com, sqm.telemetry.microsoft.com, telemetry.urs.microsoft.com, survey.watson.microsoft.com, compatexchange.cloudapp.net, feedback.microsoft-hohm.com, s.gateway.messenger.live.com, vortex-win.data.microsoft.com, feedback.search.microsoft.com, schemas.microsoft.akadns.net , watson.telemetry.microsoft.com, choice.microsoft.com.nsatc.net, wes.df.telemetry.microsoft.com, sqm.df.telemetry.microsoft.com, settings-win.data.microsoft.com, redir.metaservices.microsoft.com, i1.services.social.microsoft.com, vortex-sandbox.data.microsoft.com, diagnostics.support.microsoft.com, watson.ppe.telemetry.microsoft.com, msnbot-65-55-108-23.search.msn.com, telecommand.telemetry.microsoft.com, settings-sandbox.data.microsoft.com, sls.update.microsoft.com.akadns.net, fe2.update.microsoft.com.akadns.net, vortex-bn2.metron.live.com.nsatc.net, vortex-cy2.metron.live.com.nsatc.net, oca.telemetry.microsoft.com.nsatc.net, sqm.telemetry.microsoft.com.nsatc.net, reports.wes.df.telemetry.microsoft.com, corpext.msitadfs.glbdns2.microsoft.com, services.wes.df.telemetry.microsoft.com, watson.telemetry.microsoft.com.nsatc.net, statsfe2.update.microsoft.com.akadns.net, i1.services.social.microsoft.com.nsatc.net, telecommand.telemetry.microsoft.com.nsatc.net
- userbinator 11y ago

by nerdy 11y ago

userbinator 11y ago

I'm not surprised that MS is making it harder to disable these things. It should be possible to patch them out completely, but then you also have to deal with signing, system file protection, and updates which could re-enable them again... MS is putting up a much stronger fight now than they did with the previous versions of Windows.

gr3yh47 11y ago
if something is free, you are not the customer, you are the product
- naringas 11y ago
  Windows 10 is not free, it's a free upgrade for customers that already payed for a previous version.
  - userbinator 11y ago
    ...which is unlike all the previous versions of Windows.
  - naringas 11y ago
    paid
- joshuapants 11y ago
  Windows 10 is not free. The cost is built-in to the hardware you buy. They threw their users a bone to get some goodwill and hopefully entice some of them off old OSes, but the OS is not free, and this canard needs to stop. Linux is free. Do you mean to imply that Linux is nothing more than an advertising/tracking platform? I pay for cable TV, so I guess I'm not the product there right? Oh wait, even though I pay the real money comes from being able to direct my eyeballs at ads. The world is not that simple, and I keep seeing people parrot this exact line at everything. It is applicable in some cases and not in others, so don't whip it to death.
  - FilterSweep 11y ago
    That's comparing enterprised apples to open-sourced oranges.
    - tarpherder 11y ago
      Yes, but the comment above his simplifies both into "fruit" so it's valid to call it out on that.
- dudus 11y ago
  119.99 for the Home version and 199.99 for the Pro version. http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/en_US/pdp/Windows-10-Home/productID.319937100 http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/en_US/pdp/Windows-... http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/en_US/pdp/Windows-10-Pro/productID.319935900 http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/en_US/pdp/Windows-...
  - jebblue 11y ago
    Yep, my restore disk set had a bad disk (and I paid for them too which sucks) so since it was the Home version and I thought I might need stuff that Windows 10 Pro has I went for pro, cost me $200 bucks. I got my license on Amazon. I thought about getting an MSDN subscription but not sure how the licensing works these days for the OS's it includes (it used to be fairly complicated years ago). Edit: I used smile.amazon.com so money is contributed to my charity, the American Heart Association.
- jevgeni 11y ago
  FOSS?
- fluidcruft 11y ago
  ??? Windows is not gratis and has tracking. GNU is gratis and has no tracking.
- drcube 11y ago
  MTV isn't free. Paying customers are still their product.
atburrow 11y ago
Blocking at the router level could work. I figure if you have multiple PCs on the network, it could also be easier to maintain.
- mondoshawan 11y ago
  The problem with this is that unless you're doing deep packet inspection, they can patch the system to route every call through the same frontend IP -- including services you actually want to use. It'll work for the short term, but probably not long term -- doubly so if they just route everything over HTTP.

timmytokyo 11y ago

This is a list of the domains added by the script to the hosts file: adnxs.com, c.msn.com, g.msn.com, h1.msn.com, msedge.net, rad.msn.com, ads.msn.com, adnexus.net, ac3.msn.com, c.atdmt.com, m.adnxs.com, rad.msn.com, sO.2mdn.net, ads1.msn.com, ec.atdmt.com, flex.msn.com, rad.live.com, ui.skype.com, msftncsi.com, a-msedge.net, a.rad.msn.com, b.rad.msn.com, cdn.atdmt.com, m.hotmail.com, ads1.msads.net, a.ads1.msn.com, a.ads2.msn.com, apps.skype.com, b.ads1.msn.com, view.atdmt.com, watson.live.com, preview.msn.com, aidps.atdmt.com, preview.msn.com, static.2mdn.net, a.ads2.msads.net, b.ads2.msads.net, db3aqu.atdmt.com, secure.adnxs.com, www.msftncsi.com, cs1.wpc.v0cdn.net, live.rads.msn.com, ad.doubleclick.net, bs.serving-sys.com, a-0001.a-msedge.net, pricelist.skype.com, a-0001.a-msedge.net, a-0002.a-msedge.net, a-0003.a-msedge.net, a-0004.a-msedge.net, a-0005.a-msedge.net, a-0006.a-msedge.net, a-0007.a-msedge.net, a-0008.a-msedge.net, a-0009.a-msedge.net, choice.microsoft.com, watson.microsoft.com, feedback.windows.com, aka-cdn-ns.adtech.de, cds26.ams9.msecn.net, lb1.www.ms.akadns.net, corp.sts.microsoft.com, az361816.vo.msecnd.net, az512334.vo.msecnd.net, telemetry.microsoft.com, msntest.serving-sys.com, secure.flashtalking.com, telemetry.appex.bing.net, pre.footprintpredict.com, pre.footprintpredict.com, vortex.data.microsoft.com, statsfe2.ws.microsoft.com, statsfe1.ws.microsoft.com, df.telemetry.microsoft.com, oca.telemetry.microsoft.com, sqm.telemetry.microsoft.com, telemetry.urs.microsoft.com, survey.watson.microsoft.com, compatexchange.cloudapp.net, feedback.microsoft-hohm.com, s.gateway.messenger.live.com, vortex-win.data.microsoft.com, feedback.search.microsoft.com, schemas.microsoft.akadns.net , watson.telemetry.microsoft.com, choice.microsoft.com.nsatc.net, wes.df.telemetry.microsoft.com, sqm.df.telemetry.microsoft.com, settings-win.data.microsoft.com, redir.metaservices.microsoft.com, i1.services.social.microsoft.com, vortex-sandbox.data.microsoft.com, diagnostics.support.microsoft.com, watson.ppe.telemetry.microsoft.com, msnbot-65-55-108-23.search.msn.com, telecommand.telemetry.microsoft.com, settings-sandbox.data.microsoft.com, sls.update.microsoft.com.akadns.net, fe2.update.microsoft.com.akadns.net, vortex-bn2.metron.live.com.nsatc.net, vortex-cy2.metron.live.com.nsatc.net, oca.telemetry.microsoft.com.nsatc.net, sqm.telemetry.microsoft.com.nsatc.net, reports.wes.df.telemetry.microsoft.com, corpext.msitadfs.glbdns2.microsoft.com, services.wes.df.telemetry.microsoft.com, watson.telemetry.microsoft.com.nsatc.net, statsfe2.update.microsoft.com.akadns.net, i1.services.social.microsoft.com.nsatc.net, telecommand.telemetry.microsoft.com.nsatc.net

userbinator 11y ago