Disable telemetry and other data collection for as many software as possible?

Question

Windows

Maybe someone knows or someone collects (on github or writes a thread in the forum) tips and methods for disabling data collection and software telemetry on windows and windows itself? Tell me if you have met or use it yourself.
PS I ask you to refrain from sending to Google and calling to go to other platforms

Answer 1

Cut off internet access.
And not by means of the OS itself, but by means external to the computer - on a router or the like.

Answer 2

Here is a list of programs to disable telemetry and any surveillance in Windows 10 :
1. Destroy Windows 10 Spying An
open source program, which is undoubtedly a plus. There are not many possibilities, so additional programs are needed.
Download
Sources
Manual in Russian
2. O&O ShutUp10
Anti-spyware program with more advanced features.
Off. site
3. Ashampoo AntiSpy
Several features will come in handy from this program, for the final shutdown of surveillance
Off. site
All programs I use personally, and they are absolutely free, so good luck in the fight against surveillance.

Answer 3

Put any more or less firewall (for example - Outpost firewall - I'm using its example to tell). Turn on the "ask on every activity" mode in it or something like that. And he will ask you about each new program. Go nuts on the number of requests and create a rule for each case.
But there is a pack of "buts":
- most likely there will be only two options - or completely not let the program into the Internet, or completely let it go. Those. turning off telemetry while leaving the possibility of updating, for example, will not work.
- for system things most likely will not work.

Answer 4

Disable telemetry and other data collection for as many software as possible?

Extremely difficult, on the verge of fantasy.
Now everyone collects telemetry - computers, TVs, kettles and irons.
For this information is easy to monetize.
And the majority collect it quite secretly, at least not advertising it, but often encrypting and masking it.
As a result, it is extremely difficult, and often impossible, to distinguish it from useful traffic.
Therefore, either we google for each software that the community dug up, or we ourselves sit and analyze the traffic.
There is no magic universal way.

Answer 5

Here is the reg file (Firewall Chips):
----------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------- --
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
;Copyright 2016 Trottle
;This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 3.
;This program is distributed WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
;See for more details.
[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\shell\FWc]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\shell\FWc]
"MUIVerb"="Set firewall rules"
"Icon"="imageres.dll,102"
"subcommands"=""
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\shell\FWc\shell\01]
"MUIVerb"="block inbound"
"Icon"="imageres.dll,100"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\shell\FWc\shell\01\command]
@=" cmd /q /c echo CreateObject(\"Shell.Application\").ShellExecute \"cmd\", \"/q /c chcp 1251 & netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name=\"\"%1\"\" dir=in action=block program=\"\"%1\"\" enable=yes | msg * \", \"\", \"runas\" > %%temp%%\\ev.vbs & cscript %%temp%%\\ev.vbs & del %%temp%%\\ev.vbs "
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\shell\FWc\shell\02]
"MUIVerb"="allow inbound"
"Icon"="imageres.dll,101"
@="cmd /q /c echo CreateObject(\"Shell.Application\").ShellExecute \"cmd\", \"/q /c chcp 1251 & netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name=\"\"%1\ "\" dir=in action=allow program=\"\"%1\"\" enable=yes | msg * \", \"\", \"runas\" > %%temp%%\\ev.vbs & cscript %%temp%%\\ev.vbs & del %%temp%%\\ev.vbs "
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\shell\FWc\shell\03]
"Icon"="imageres.dll,100"
"MUIVerb"="block outbound"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\shell\FWc\shell\03\command]
@= "cmd /q /c echo CreateObject(\"Shell.Application\").ShellExecute \"cmd\", \"/q /c chcp 1251 & netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name=\"\" %1\"\" dir=out action=block program=\"\"%1\"\" enable=yes | msg * \", \"\", \"runas\" > %%temp%%\\ev.vbs & cscript %%temp%%\\ev.vbs & del %%temp%%\\ev.vbs "
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\shell\FWc\shell\04]
"MUIVerb"="allow outbound"
"Icon"="imageres.dll,101"
"CommandFlags"=dword:00000040
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\shell\FWc\shell\ 04\command]
@="cmd /q /c echo CreateObject(\"Shell.Application\").ShellExecute \"cmd\", \"/q /c chcp 1251 & netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name=\"\ "%1\"\" dir=out action=allow program=\"\"%1\"\" enable=yes | msg * \", \"\", \"runas\" > %%temp%%\\ev.vbs & cscript %%temp%%\\ev.vbs & del %%temp%%\\ev.vbs "
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\shell\FWc\shell\06]
"MUIVerb"="Show firewall panel"
"
; If you do not want to have an uninstaller you can skip next part:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\FWcSubMenu]
"DisplayName"="'Set firewall rules' submenu"
"DisplayIcon"="imageres.dll, 102"
"UninstallString"="cmd /q /c echo Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00>%TEMP%\\pr.reg & echo.>>%TEMP%\\pr.reg & echo [-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\\exefile\\ shell\\FWc]>>%TEMP%\\pr.reg & echo.>>%TEMP%\\pr.reg & echo [-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Uninstall\\ FWcSubMenu]>>%TEMP%\\pr.reg & regedit /s %TEMP%\\pr.reg & del %TEMP%\\pr.reg"
"DisplayVersion"="1.1"
"URLInfoAbout"
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Answer 6

Lists of telemetry servers on Windows go in large numbers. And it is necessary to cut essno means, external in relation to Windows. BUT! Windows is also not a fool - and there, on the same hosts, utility services that developers writing under Windows may need can be placed.
It is guaranteed to turn off telemetry only if you have access to the source code :) Because I myself can draw as many buttons as I like and place them anywhere. And maybe even stop collecting some part of the data, the least important when you click on them :D