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The point of the report above is that you can NOT disable all telemetry, not even in the Enterprise version of Windows.

tjoff 8y ago
...through official means. I don't for a second doubt you can turn it off completely. But unofficial solutions come with tons of potential issues.
- metildaa 8y ago
  Could just block all communication with Microsoft by the OS. Or, move to non-Windows OSes like the retail giants already have. Kroger and Walmart run Suse Enterprise Linux (relevant Uptime Funk reference) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYRlTISvjww https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYRlTISvjww
  - Spooky23 8y ago
    Not in a government or business environment using Office 365. 365 requires all sorts of open connectivity to function.
    - metildaa 8y ago
      If your using Office 365, telemetry in Windows is the least of your concern.
  - Dylan16807 8y ago
    > Could just block all communication with Microsoft by the OS. Easier said than done when there's a minefield of firewall-bypasses for it.
    - rasz 8y ago
      Care to elaborate? Afaik and tested w10 does NOT bypass its own firewall when set to 'drop all' traffic.
      - Dylan16807 8y ago
        From what I've seen "drop all" works at the moment but directly blocking the telemetry programs keeps getting undone whenever the file changes and it intentionally doesn't use the hosts file.
        rasz 8y ago
        Dont know what you mean by undone, but running firewall in drop all + whitelisting works fine and block all telemetry (one caveat : dnscache needs to be disabled to remove possibility of dns tunneling)
        Dylan16807 8y ago
        From what I remember, when you say "block all connections by this program" on the relevant files it doesn't just use the filename, it tracks the exact version of the file, and as soon as windows update touches it your firewall block stops working. So a whitelist method works, good, but I think it's fair to said that specifically blocking telemetry is extremely difficult with the way blacklisting works.

...through official means. I don't for a second doubt you can turn it off completely. But unofficial solutions come with tons of potential issues.

metildaa 8y ago
Could just block all communication with Microsoft by the OS. Or, move to non-Windows OSes like the retail giants already have. Kroger and Walmart run Suse Enterprise Linux (relevant Uptime Funk reference) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYRlTISvjww https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYRlTISvjww
- Spooky23 8y ago
  Not in a government or business environment using Office 365. 365 requires all sorts of open connectivity to function.
  - metildaa 8y ago
    If your using Office 365, telemetry in Windows is the least of your concern.
- Dylan16807 8y ago
  > Could just block all communication with Microsoft by the OS. Easier said than done when there's a minefield of firewall-bypasses for it.
  - rasz 8y ago
    Care to elaborate? Afaik and tested w10 does NOT bypass its own firewall when set to 'drop all' traffic.
    - Dylan16807 8y ago
      From what I've seen "drop all" works at the moment but directly blocking the telemetry programs keeps getting undone whenever the file changes and it intentionally doesn't use the hosts file.
      - rasz 8y ago
        Dont know what you mean by undone, but running firewall in drop all + whitelisting works fine and block all telemetry (one caveat : dnscache needs to be disabled to remove possibility of dns tunneling)
        Dylan16807 8y ago
        From what I remember, when you say "block all connections by this program" on the relevant files it doesn't just use the filename, it tracks the exact version of the file, and as soon as windows update touches it your firewall block stops working. So a whitelist method works, good, but I think it's fair to said that specifically blocking telemetry is extremely difficult with the way blacklisting works.