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I might use this in a VM, where I typically only want the bare minimum of features. But this won't block all of the ~spyware~ telemetry built into Windows, and
by imiric 4y ago
I might use this in a VM, where I typically only want the bare minimum of features. But this won't block all of the ~spyware~ telemetry built into Windows, and I definitely wouldn't run it on a real machine.
Right now I'm using Windows 10 Ameliorated[1] in VMs, which is much more lightweight than the official builds. I haven't done any deep inspections to see if itself introduces some spyware, but it works fine for my purposes. Has anyone done any research into this build and know if it can be trusted?
[1]: https://ameliorated.info/ https://ameliorated.info/
- Eisenstein 4y ago> I haven't done any deep inspections to see if itself introduces some spyware I have, in that you can build your own version using their instructions and scripts, and I have read the scripts thoroughly. There is a binary blob at the end of one of them which gets decoded and installed, but you can strip it out easily enough. As well there are a few downloads that it pulls and installs -- also easy to comment that out and affects very little. They like to mess with the GUI and that is a matter of taste (they make the new settings panel inoperable so I remove that part from the script). I have also checked network traffic on an edge device to see what an AME install sends out. It is fine.