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You can try, but to be frank you can never be sure. The only 100% way to stop telemetry is to work disconnected from the Internet. A slightly safer version of
by AlexeyBrin 10y ago
You can try, but to be frank you can never be sure. The only 100% way to stop telemetry is to work disconnected from the Internet.
A slightly safer version of Windows is Enterprise LTSB but I don't think you can legally buy it as an individual.
- zebrafish 10y agoYou can't buy that for a home computer. It's only licensed for PLCs and other manufacturing or enterprise critical computers. edit*: and it's extraordinarily expensive
- thoughtpalette 10y agoI just added the above linked endpoints to my hosts file. Not sure how well that'll work.
- falcolas 10y agoReports from earlier indicate that they don't use the hosts file (or purportedly even DNS) for OS processes like telemetry and update. You'd have to do it at a higher level.
- MikusR 10y agoYou have to block using firewall. As hosts file is being bypassed. Plenty of malware modify hosts file.
- thoughtpalette 10y agoAhhh, it seems I should've read the entire comment thread. Thanks to both of you for the notification!