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Re:If you must run Windows 10 by lawnchair_larry on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @09:30PM (#20816092)
You cannot disable or control the phoning home. It’s pervasive. MS is obsessed with using telemetry to track everything you do, and they don’t believe users should have a choice.
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Re:If you must run Windows 10 by jodrellblank on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @11:28AM (#20820736)
they don’t believe users should have a choice.

Microsoft adds more telemetry in PowerShell 3: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/powershell/new-telemetry-in-p...

And there is an opt out. Guess they do believe users should have a choice.

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Re:If you must run Windows 10 by lawnchair_larry on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @12:46PM (#20821493)
Guess again!
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Re:If you must run Windows 10 by jodrellblank on Thursday August 29, 2019 @03:39PM (#20832865)
OK. the .NET Core SDK includes telemetry, here's the official documentation: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/tools/telemetry

Section three, "How to opt out".

I guess the same way again.

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Re:If you must run Windows 10 by lawnchair_larry on Thursday August 29, 2019 @11:35PM (#20835783)
You’ve found a way to opt out of one particular thing that they collect. This is irrelevant to the broader issue. You can’t opt out of all of the hundreds of other things they collect across the other products. There is no way to opt out entirely for Windows.
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