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Leave Windows 11 Idle For 24 Hours, It Sends Over 3000 Telemetry Pings To More Than 100 Different Servers. (www.youtube.com)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Anonymous_Leaker@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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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

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[–] damwab@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Laughs in Tux

[–] luden_dev@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 months ago

I’ve been using Linux for ages but I needed Windows 11 for Unreal Engine 5.7

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (16 children)

MS at least permits to desactivate all this crap (naturally not documented, but activated by default), it's all in the settings, services and registry (eg.desactivate SysMain, whith which MS ~~steal~~ share your Bandwidth). Apart there are also a ton of other services and "features" which remain active by default, despite not longer needed since 15 years, eg.Prefetch, IndexService, Hibernate and other (eg.AI), slowing down the system and wasting RAM. Most optimizer apps, like ShutUp10 and others can help, if you don't want to do it by yourself (!!!). To make easier the access, God Mode still works in Windows 11, or download Super God Mode. Windows always need work to turn it in a fast and usable OS with an reasonable privacy (remember that some telemetry make sense, eg.for update checks (Important security updates, also for drivers)

Mandatory to install Portmaster.

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[–] JustinianTheLarge@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago

Any idea about Win11 IoT LTSC? I use that in a VM, pretty nice, very barebones OTB, I use CTT tuner to just remove microslop edge.

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