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Even if they introduce an "off" setting, there's no good way to verify that they aren't collecting/sending that data anyway.

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What about using something like TCPView[1], and Process Explorer[2]? Saying that there's "no good way" is throwing in the towel a bit early.

[1] https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/tcpview.asp... [2] https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/processexpl...

If it's the OS doing the data gathering, it can just hide that stuff from whatever you would use to monitor it. Look at how rootkits hide for an example.

Not to mention they bypass their own hosts file to make sure you don't override anything that might stop their data theft.

Those tools rely on Microsoft-developed APIs to monitor traffic though...

A monitoring device connected along the network path would be more trustworthy.

Or won't again in the future. I finally bailed on MS completely (at home only unfortunately) when 10 came out and telemetry was first reported. I let myself get too comfortable with Windows 7, and will not make that mistake again.

Now, for example, it feels great to happen to notice my harddrive spin up when I'm sitting idle at my desk, and relax knowing my OS is just doing what it's supposed to, not covertely spying on me or installing some crud I didn't ask for.

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