Yet I bet they will still collect many, many gigabytes
Correct, those settings are cosmetic
Chris titus has a nice tool which removes as much telemetry as possible. You can get rid of a considerable piece of telemetry in group policy editor, services and regedit.
Despite that, windows will never be as private as macos and macos will never be as private as linux.
You can’t verify how private MacOS and Windows are, besides checking the network to see if they send data to a server, as unlike Linux they are closed source.
Yep, you can get most via the network and maybe sth in logs. Linux makes this quite easy tho
Why just use Ameliorated
no, imho ameliorated cannot be recommended as it provides way too much risk as it removes almost everything. Definitely more than an open source script.
Source?
The PC Security Channel made a video comparing Windows 11 and XP with Wireshark. The telemetry settings in Windows 11 are set to minimal, you can see his response to a specific comment about it. Here’s the link: https://youtu.be/IT4vDfA_4NI
He doesn’t say he has minimal telemetry, he actually says it’s a brand new laptop (from manufacturer) out of the box with nothing installed. What we are referring to above is with telemetry disabled in oobe.
If you see a specific comment, he responds that he set everything that he could off. What I think this means is he set it off the first time the laptop turned on, since (I’m guessing) the same screen as above appeared when he turned the laptop on for the first time
Click, Tab, space, Tab, space, Tab, space, Tab, space, Tab, tab, space
This is why I make students install a copy of Windows without the use of a mouse.
I just bought a used laptop that came with windows 11. After all of this data collection crap it started blue screening after I installed the first set of updates.
Pop Os has been running flawlessly.
Mr.Gates is not in Microsoft for years, but yes
Surprised there wasn’t a conspiratorial reference to covid testing in the meme tbh
Switched to Linux… got tired of them changing the settings for me with updates.
Might have been one of the best decisions of your life!
Welcome to “windows as a service”. At this point Windows is basically like a freemium app.
Yes, except the free part
Wait, you’re paying for Windows?
Part of the price when you buy a computer.
Bill Gates no longer works for Microsoft. He couldn’t care less about you’re data.
Let us hope he is not just data but an actual person.
That’s the part of joke
Spoiler alert, when you hit accept all tabs go back to “on”.
Our internal documentation for setting up a windows VM literally says “Press ‘maybe later’ for the next 9 screens”
Where linux tho
On the USB stick
When entering security questions:
down arrow tab keyboardspamkeyboardspamkeyboardspam enter
down arrow tab keyboardspamkeyboardspamkeyboardspam enter
down arrow tab keyboardspamkeyboardspamkeyboardspam enter
Slipstreamed windows is the only way. Skip all this bullshit and pre-remove all the bloatware fuckery too. Highly recommend if you are installing windows regularly: https://techcult.com/how-to-slipstream-windows-10-installation/
OOSU10 is also helpful if you don’t wanna mess with install media.
Get yourself Windows 10 LTSC, turn off any remaining telemetry with WPD+ Shutup10.
What’s the best way to get it?
Sail the open seas. Check the megathreads in some communities on Lemmy
Like what communities? Never saw a megathread here.
To be honest, I’d forgotten that “installing windows” was a thing
I’m using NTLite for the last two years to make “custom Windows” that gets rid of much of these data-grabbing s**t. I recommend people here to try it.
You have tons of features like disabling default shit like teams, photos, the much-hated media player, default apps etc. And enable local account creation without resorting to Shift+F10 to CMD and typing the bypass command there.
It also cuts off the other versions of Windows 11 that you don’t want in the boot media. I recommend this software over others because you only need to customize it once before you install the OS. Here
Yeah nah… I think I’d rather take a FOSS mod tool. Or, you know, stay in Linux at much as i can, as of now.
