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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 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days 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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[–] yuman@programming.dev 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm not that interested to find out what exactly it's doing. it suffices that I was explicit about fuck no don't do none of that and it's still outbound.

like the latest one I blocked is QownNotes. everything related to online is turned off yet it still wants to connect to api.qownnotes.com.

[–] PushButton@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

First line on their website:

QOwnNotes - Free open source plain-text file markdown note-taking with Nextcloud / ownCloud integration

Dude, a fucking "cloud notepad" is phoning home... Check what you're installing.