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Originally Posted by Catfish
You cannot stop Win 10 spying, unless you have the Enterprise version.
Nice business model.
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Actually, that is not true. It is possible to have a comprehensive fix that keeps Microsoft from ALL spying. My goto guy here is Barnacles Nerdgasm on You Tube. A former 15 year Microsoft employee in the Windows test division (his ENTIRE division was axed--tells you something, doesn't it?), he is a systems programmer who definitely knows more than I do.
This video is 35 minutes long but there is at least 90 minutes worth of good solid information here. Replay value is immense. My scariest takeaway is that he showed how to use your hosts file to block the Bing search engine completely. But Edge actually ignores your privacy settings and bypasses the hosts file to access Bing directly. "Customer preference be damned!"
A close second place scary revelation was that updates routinely change your privacy settings. You don't know when the update happens and Microsoft has no respect for your choices.
The good news is that by following this video, you can shut off ALL the Microsoft Windows 10 privacy invasions and return your desktop operating system to the job of helping you. I would take the process just one step further.
After you're done, use Notepad to load up the Hosts file. Look in the section of changes made by Anti-Beacon and copy all the sites turned off in the hosts file. Now take it for granted that Microsoft's next move will be to screw you, you have no right to make choices.
Simply deny access to those sites through your router blacklist. That takes access out of the ability of Microsoft to restore. It's the only change I'd make to Barnacles' recommendations.