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And this is treated as a bad thing?!
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Send only info about your device, its settings and capabilities, and whether it is performing properly.
In other words, even after turning off all the settings, your data still gets collected.
The rest of the installation process wasn’t fun either. It was worded in this weird, condescending tone, like “Let’s get everything set up for you”, and “Let Cortana help you get things done!”.
Thank goodness for FLOSS and GNU/Linux.
People have always said turning those off reduces what’s collected, but I’m a devoutly pessimistic skeptic. Is there a way to verify what telemetry is collected? I’m not fluent but I’d think something like two VMs with different telemetry setting and wireshark. Has anyone tried?
I don’t think so, but this sounds like a super interesting idea. I might try this later!
If you do, I’d be super interested in hearing about your results or reading a writeup from you.
I’ve been super busy as of recent, but I’ll try to remember to reply to you if/when I do :)
In the past I’ve heard of power shell scripts you can run to actually disable or uninstall stuff. I wouldn’t trust these toggles to do much at all.