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I actually am keeping several computers in my house on Windows 7. A work laptop came pre-installed with 10 and I haven't yet installed Linux on it.

I think I'll just dump its traffic with no network apps open and see which addresses it calls home on.

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I found this further down the thread, it might be of interest to you.

https://github.com/crazy-max/WindowsSpyBlocker

I personally recommend Shutup10. Same function, better UX.

https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10

Thank you, I'll be researching this further

As for my take, I have a little shell script that translates hosts files into unbound configuration files, with always_nxdomain rules for each superdomain. I then use that unbound instance as my DNS.

I'd use my rpi for this, but it's on the wrong vlan...

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