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The problem with Windows tracking is not that apps track you (here the solution would be easy: just don't use the apps), but that the system itself snitches on
by vetinari 9y ago
The problem with Windows tracking is not that apps track you (here the solution would be easy: just don't use the apps), but that the system itself snitches on you.
Are you starting an app or search for document, using the windows shell? Your phrase goes to Bing. That's much harder to avoid than just not using an app.
- hungerstrike 9y agoNone of that happens if you only use Basic telemetry and if you disable Cortana or the Cortana option to "Search online and include web results". So, the only tracking you're left with is the kind that comes packaged in UWP apps.
- vetinari 9y agoI did disable Cortana (it doesn't even work in the language version I want to use), but according to the firewall, it still tries to connects to bing.com. So much for "disabling".