It's a plain text file, located in the Windows folder, at the following path: The hosts file is used to map hostnames to IP addresses, and its data overrides the results of DNS queries. In my opinion, a good trade-off may be a simple change on the "hosts" file. To the delight of privacy conscious users, there are a lot of tutorials and suggestions focused on avoid (or rather, reduce) the gathering of informations collected from Windows 10, using tools like PeerBlock, personal firewalls, network devices (like a Pi-Hole ). They're part of a larger trend in the software industry to collect and analyze event data as part of a shift to data-driven decision making.
Telemetry features aren't unique to Microsoft and there's nothing particularly secret about them. Microsoft uses telemetry data from Windows 10 to identify security and reliability issues, to analyze and fix software problems, to help improve the quality of Windows and related services, and to make design decisions for future releases. Microsoft defines telemetry as "system data that is uploaded by the Connected User Experience and Telemetry component," also known as the Universal Telemetry Client, or UTC service.
Since Windows 8, Microsoft has moved to a new commercial strategy: in addition with traditional selling of OS licenses, started got revenues from searches, apps and games.īut to do this, MS has started the collection of “telemetry” data, considered by many users as privacy-relevant.
0 kommentar(er)
