why this thread and ones like it have not been removed is shocking lol no need for crazy people with tin foil hats in the worlds of the nets
Speaking of tinfoil... ROTFLMAO @ Lionel... youtube.com/watch?v=CUDMJreJllM But cha ya know what ??? He is correct. Especially about young people being born into this and having no clue.
Windows 10's automatic spying can be easily stopped. Use an external hardware firewall. Ubiquiti's ERLite-3 is $100. Take control of your network.
People can apply the exact same basic methods as used for 10. Remove telemetry updates, kill all services that are not needed anyway, kill Windows update, get Peerblock and Windows Firewall Control blocking any non essential processes in/out and Microsoft sites. Done. Most of the DWS type programs work for 8/8.1 and often 7 too anyway. No expensive hardware or software needed. Hell, even just apply the blocklists and it doesn't matter even if the data is being gathered - it isn't going anywhere then no matter what. Take control of your own traffic. Add a couple of blocklists to Peerblock. It's free. It's easy. It's ALL you actually need to do. Or people can just be lazy and admit they are instead. Accepting it as unbeatable, or even something that takes more than 5-10 minutes to do, is just that.