For anyone interested in blocking or looking at what is happening through Windows, the "Restricted Traffic Limited Functionality Baseline" may be worth looking

For anyone interested in blocking or looking at what is happening through Windows, the "Restricted Traffic Limited Functionality Baseline" may be worth looking at. It's a set of group policy settings that can be used to manage and prevent almost all of the "phoning home", and it documents what is done etc. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/privacy/manage-connections-from-windows-operating-system-components-to-microsoft-services https://learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/privacy/manage-con... It would be interesting to then do a private CA intercept (a la mitmproxy) on the resulting system to validate whether this correctly stops everything.