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> Turn off telemetry

I may be working from old information, but doesn't Windows 10 still have unstoppable, and unauditable, telemetry?

The original comment was talking about VS Code, wasn't it?

I was speaking more generally about MS vs. Google.

You can turn off telemetry on Windows, you can try blocking Google from a network or DNS perspective, but in most cases that renders the site in an unusable state.

> Unstoppable

Use a PiHole?

This is trivial for Microsoft to bypass. They've already been consolidating and moving server addresses. Unless you block all internet traffic, you have no idea what's getting through. They can update the opaque code at any time. This is not a solution.

Blockers are going to have to switch to whitelisted IP addresses instead, I bet.

Annoying!

Btw, I do this and sometimes stuff stops working suddenly when you block random telemetry. This applies to MS and Apple products.

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