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Re:New MacBook Air by snemvalts on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @09:47AM (#22616569)
Regardless of using the start menu or not, there's a lot of background tracking (for user behaviour and ads) that needs to be disabled by registry edits. In addition to those, there's probably more that cannot be disabled.
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Re:New MacBook Air by qayxc on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @10:25AM (#22616980)
Replacing /Windows/System32/Drivers/etc/hosts isn't black magic and truly works wonders even for the more paranoid ;)

What I don't understand about this, however, are people being paranoid about W10 while they're happily accepting Google and friends to infiltrate their lives ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

You are of course exempt if you don't use any cloud-based services that you don't host yourself :D

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Re:New MacBook Air by catalogia on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @10:44AM (#22617181)
> Regardless of using the start menu or not, there's a lot of background tracking (for user behaviour and ads) that needs to be disabled by registry edits.

That stuff also has a nasty tendency to ""accidentally"" get re-enabled after updates from many reports I've heard.

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