How to Disable Telemetry in Windows 11 (Privacy)
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Concerned about privacy in Windows 11 and how much data your PC sends back to Microsoft? In this quick tutorial, you’ll learn how to reduce telemetry setting...

Boy, the good ole days are gone when it comes to Windows. I am posting just to help anybody that doesn’t know. This is like a creepy wire tap. If you are actually using Windows 11, make sure to disable and or reduce telemetry in Windows 11 (Privacy). If that actually helps, I am sure there are more ways they send data back but the video link is a simple how to for the telemetry. Here is more info: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wtg_s1GQiMU

    • yuman@programming.dev
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      18 days ago

      I’m gonna piggyback off of this to remind everyone to install OpenSnitch and go through the iinitial and super-tedious approve/deny outgoing connections.

      there’s stuff on linux that, despite being perfectly offline capable and having turned off everything related to clown sync and remote check this and that, still phones home.

        • yuman@programming.dev
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          17 days ago

          I’m not that interested to find out what exactly it’s doing. it suffices that I was explicit about fuck no don’t do none of that and it’s still outbound.

          like the latest one I blocked is QownNotes. everything related to online is turned off yet it still wants to connect to api.qownnotes.com.

          • PushButton@lemmy.world
            2·
            17 days ago

            First line on their website:

            QOwnNotes - Free open source plain-text file markdown note-taking with Nextcloud / ownCloud integration

            Dude, a fucking “cloud notepad” is phoning home… Check what you’re installing.