It's a pretty shoddy security researcher that doesn't read the documentation before posting a lot of falsehoods to Twitter.
What an unnecessary insult. If you can read the incredibly confusing Microsoft documentation better than him (or any of us), then please post the definitive step-by-step instructions for turning off all telemetry and privacy-invasive connections in Windows 10.
Then we'll see if your insult was warranted.
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/...
It shows how there's an Explain box that describes what the various settings do.
[ * ] How do you know that it even works? Plenty of times I've followed instructions from Microsoft's TechNet that didn't solve the problem it purported to solve.
And by the way, that's a helluva lot of steps to disable IPv6. Multiply that by a hundred other things you need to do, and probably a hundred you don't know about, and changes that get undone by updates, and you have a nightmare trying to create a privacy-respecting Windows 10.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/configuration/confi...
No matter your opinion about the subject at least we are talking about it now and from what I can tell he's going to make a more reproducible test with a script so we can all tear it to pieces.
If not, I hope someone else do it. Even better if it's somebody with the proper credentials some of you all are requiring (from a freaking tweet).
Sensible defaults matter.