It turns out it may not be as simple as it first appears and even disabling the tracking stuff in Windows 10 doesn't completely stop it from sending information to Microsoft:Brutal wrote:For those concerned with security it's easy enough to fix. Here's a good article.
http://bgr.com/2015/07/31/windows-10-up ... o-opt-out/
Quote:
"As invasive as it is, Microsoft does allow Windows 10 users to opt out of all of the features that might be considered invasions of privacy. Of course, users are opted in by default, which is more than a little disconcerting, but let’s focus on the solution."
I look for and disable things like this every time I can. I also install a hosts file to prevent spammy/spy-y bs from getting to me, and only use browsers I can equip with a good ad blocker....
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/15/08/26/ ... windows-10" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow
Even the hosts file may not be a reliable solution as you're placing trust in the OS that it will honour the changes you've made. In the case of Win 10 it appears there are some hard coded sites that cannot be overridden with hosts file entries. Will that list of hard coded entries change with each update issued by Microsoft (who no longer provides proper descriptions of what Windows updates do)? The long and short of it I wouldn't trust Win 10 by itself to do the right thing and would want an external firewall, or better yet, just dump the entire mess altogether and run Linux.
....I hate personification of Machines . 
and If I want to give my machine a name , I'd prefer to choose it.
I'm thinking it might be time to go to linux.
