How to Disable Telemetry in Windows 11 (Privacy)
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Concerned about privacy in Windows 11 and how much data your PC sends back to Microsoft? In this quick tutorial, you’ll learn how to reduce telemetry setting...

Boy, the good ole days are gone when it comes to Windows. I am posting just to help anybody that doesn’t know. This is like a creepy wire tap. If you are actually using Windows 11, make sure to disable and or reduce telemetry in Windows 11 (Privacy). If that actually helps, I am sure there are more ways they send data back but the video link is a simple how to for the telemetry. Here is more info: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wtg_s1GQiMU

  • WolvenSpectre@lemmy.caEnglish
    5·
    2 hours ago

    For Windows 10 and 11 this is just scratching the surface and is next to useless for all the stuff they leave behind.

    Use ShutUpWindows10++ (yes it work on 11 too) and THAT will get the vast majority of the stuff that this video doesn’t even touch on.

  • GreatWhiteBuffalo41@slrpnk.netEnglish
    16·
    3 hours ago

    Windows deleted all my files that weren’t even in one drive this week when one drive had a melt down and killed itself. I stared in disbelief, thanked the heavens I just backed all that shit up recently, laughed, and installed Linux. Didn’t even bother to see if I could recover anything. I’ve been meaning to switch for a long time and just haven’t. Windows made it pretty fucking easy.

    • Anonymous_Leaker@lemmy.worldOP
      3·
      1 hour ago

      Linux Mint is surprisingly good. I have a extra Windows 11 PC with RAID, there is no way I can mess around and try to install Linux on it. It would for sure mess up all of my storage.

  • reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net
    12·
    4 hours ago

    I have location services turned off in windows on my work computer and MS word really dislikes it. Whenever I do a side by side window with word included I get a notification (from word) that I should enable my location services in settings

    • warmaster@lemmy.world
      1·
      3 hours ago

      And they even top the contributions chart!

      Gotta love them for all they do for us, but man… they sure hate their users 🤣

    • Anonymous_Leaker@lemmy.worldOP
      20·
      7 hours ago

      It is so bad now, with all the ads and background services sucking up your RAM. I don’t think you can even use Windows 11 properly with 8GB of RAM.

      • ramble81@lemmy.zip
        1·
        1 hour ago

        Honestly I’m running Windows 11 Enterprise and I haven’t seen any of the shit people complain about. I have Telemetry turned off via a GPO (something Pro and Home don’t get), I didn’t get copilot shoved down my throat and my updates don’t crash my system

      • GreatWhiteBuffalo41@slrpnk.netEnglish
        3·
        3 hours ago

        Dude I was playing Grounded (the original not the second) last week and my computer was so hot it was insane. I used to play that on my 6 year old laptop with no issues 3 year old gaming desktop shouldn’t struggle. In fact about a year ago it didn’t struggle. At all. Windows is just garbage.

      • mushroommunk@lemmy.today
        1·
        4 hours ago

        I know for a fact you can run Windows 11 on 8GB of RAM. I just helped a friend install some software on his 8GB laptop. Now, did I spend five hours uninstalling so many things and snipping Windows down to size? Maybe. But it ran

          • Em Adespoton@lemmy.ca
            3·
            3 hours ago

            If my network connection goes down, I have difficulty using Windows with 64GB RAM.

            Why on earth does losing your network connection make the OS unusable? Like, locks up the mouse and can’t use the keyboard unusable?

    • TheDeadInternet@lemmy.world
      3·
      5 hours ago

      I bailed as soon as they introduced recall.

      Haven’t used it Sense and it’s amazing how much freedom and no bloat you have and never realized it.

  • nul9o9@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    15·
    6 hours ago

    Popped a windows 11 laptop behind a firewall for toubleshooting, it logs all traffic that leaves that subnet.

    Instantly flooded my logs with all kinds of bullshit.

  • KssioAug@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    101·
    6 hours ago

    I only use Win11 as a remote game server to play games with Moonlight/Sunshine without worrying about compatibility issues. To work and daily usage, it’s Linux all the way.

    Just a matter of time until I transition 100% to Linux though. In the meantime I run WinUtil every once in a while to make sure to disable most of that shit.