carrierPigeon
Limp Gawd
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There is a lot of mention of abilities/efforts to avoid telemetry in windows 7 and 8.1.
To go through the history, it seems that at first Microsoft rolled out telemetry to these operating systems as an optional update, then they rolled it out as a required update/ disguised as something else. Some users address the issue by monitoring their list of updates vs the list of "problematic" updates (not getting the update or removing the update).
I also understand that there is Spybot anti-beacon, which seems to be a less popular approach on this forum.
I think I also came across a github project that is related but I can't seem to put my finger on it right now.
I'd imagine there are also versions of these operating systems that have limited telemetry-- industry/ government computers that demand more privacy (perhaps enterprise versions, maybe server versions). I suppose those are the best options (compared to other mentions in this post), but not easily available.
Of course, some of what I have read (in gathering the above information) could be outdated as a lot of it was 1-4 year old.
Are these options all still available? How shaky or firm is the avoiding/removing various updates path?
To go through the history, it seems that at first Microsoft rolled out telemetry to these operating systems as an optional update, then they rolled it out as a required update/ disguised as something else. Some users address the issue by monitoring their list of updates vs the list of "problematic" updates (not getting the update or removing the update).
I also understand that there is Spybot anti-beacon, which seems to be a less popular approach on this forum.
I think I also came across a github project that is related but I can't seem to put my finger on it right now.
I'd imagine there are also versions of these operating systems that have limited telemetry-- industry/ government computers that demand more privacy (perhaps enterprise versions, maybe server versions). I suppose those are the best options (compared to other mentions in this post), but not easily available.
Of course, some of what I have read (in gathering the above information) could be outdated as a lot of it was 1-4 year old.
Are these options all still available? How shaky or firm is the avoiding/removing various updates path?