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You could always just do that in Windows' hosts file, too.
by scott_karana 11y ago
You could always just do that in Windows' hosts file, too.
- morganvachon 11y agoYou can, and I'm sure most would. There may come a time, however, when a future Windows update rewrites or works around the hosts file for telemetry. Doing it at the router or external firewall avoids that possibility.
- scott_karana 11y agoAh, fair point.
- kardos 11y agoSuch an update could also add new data harvesting hosts, which would bypass your router's blacklist.
- morganvachon 11y agoThat's a given. The rabbit hole goes as deep as Microsoft is willing to dig it. Like any other vulnerability, there will always be security researchers out there who find and report on new ones.
- yellowapple 11y agoThat's assuming that Windows doesn't circumvent such things because "well we know what we're doing and you don't".