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Re:Google sued: Idle Android eats mobile data to send teleme... by driverdan on Saturday November 14, 2020 @10:54AM (#25093036)
And then next time Windows is updated it re-enables all of that garbage.
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Re:Google sued: Idle Android eats mobile data to send teleme... by tempest_ on Saturday November 14, 2020 @11:32AM (#25093310)
That is what gave me the final push to move my PCs to linux. I kept disabling Cortana and telemetry and every update it would be back.
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Re:Google sued: Idle Android eats mobile data to send teleme... by yakireev on Saturday November 14, 2020 @12:19PM (#25093725)
Same story BTW. I held back to Windows 7 for as long as it was feasible, and then switched to Linux. Was painful at first, but freedom has a price.
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Re:Google sued: Idle Android eats mobile data to send teleme... by lenkite on Saturday November 14, 2020 @03:02PM (#25095145)
When disabled via group policy, no it doesn't.
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Re:Google sued: Idle Android eats mobile data to send teleme... by yakireev on Saturday November 14, 2020 @04:00PM (#25095581)
"Windows telemetry can be easily disabled", you said, but what you're talking about is the opposite of easy, isn't it?
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Re:Google sued: Idle Android eats mobile data to send teleme... by lenkite on Saturday November 14, 2020 @10:25PM (#25097955)
What ? I suggest trying for yourself. This is a 3 step UI workflow starting from scratch and can be done in within 15 seconds, assuming you are comfortable with the Windows UI.

Its definitely easy. EDIT: or is this sarcasm ? difficult to tell.

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