WindowsSpyBlocker

This is just what I could find in a few minutes. Some are more privacy-focused, some are more de-bloat focused. Some add new features or enable new tweaks. Some are flexible, some are one-and-done. They're everywhere since Win 10 released. https://www.ntlite.com/ https://github.com/Sycnex/Windows10Debloater https://github.com/Disassembler0/Win10-Initial-Setup-Script/ https://github.com/builtbybel/debotnet https://github.com/W4RH4WK/Debloat-Windows-10 https://github.com/crazy-max/WindowsSpyBlocker https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10 https://www.w10privacy.de/english-home/ https://github.com/Raphire/Win11Debloat https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil https://www.revi.cc/revios/download/?method=playbook

These list contain most MS spyware domains, I think: https://github.com/crazy-max/WindowsSpyBlocker/tree/master/d... Be careful, though, it's easy to accidentally break Windows Update.

Windows Update uses all disk space on space limited VMs hosting various services, disabling it has become more difficult (Disabling the service doesn't work anymore, recently a helper service to restart it was released) Which has led to something a bit drastic but I haven't looked back - blocking all Windows IP's on router level for the VM address space. I still run updates every few months. Edit: If anyone want's a list of IPs here's one that I use and is maintained somewhat regularly : https://github.com/crazy-max/WindowsSpyBlocker/tree/master/d...

Also, I block MS telemetry hosts on my router's dns server: https://github.com/crazy-max/WindowsSpyBlocker/blob/master/d...

Here you go: https://github.com/crazy-max/WindowsSpyBlocker

https://github.com/Perflyst/PiHoleBlocklist/blob/master/Smar... https://github.com/crazy-max/WindowsSpyBlocker/blob/master/d... https://github.com/Truvis/CodeDrop/blob/master/PiHoleDNS_scr... https://github.com/kbinani/adblock-youtube-ads/blob/master/b... https://github.com/mmotti/pihole-regex/blob/master/regex.lis... https://gitlab.com/ookangzheng/dbl-oisd-nl/raw/master/dbl.tx... https://raw.githubusercontent.com/CHEF-KOCH/Audio-fingerprin... https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DandelionSprout/adfilt/mas... https://raw.githubusercontent.com/LanikSJ/ubo-filters/master... https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hectorm/hmirror/master/dat... https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hectorm/hmirror/master/dat... https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hectorm/hmirror/master/dat... https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hectorm/hmirror/master/dat... https://raw.github

That program is just a dashboard for quickly configuring group policies and the Windows firewall. It's programmed for .NET, if you don't trust it decompile it, get the list of policies and their values and set them manually. ILSpy does a great job at decompiling it. For the firewall part you can install AdGuard Home[1], set it as your DNS and add the host lists[2] if you want it to auto update or use WindowsSpyBlocker[3] and keep it updated manually. [1] https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome [2] https://github.com/crazy-max/WindowsSpyBlocker/tree/master/d... [3] https://github.com/crazy-max/WindowsSpyBlocker

Of course, I have long since added this list[1] to my openbsd firewall. That is besides the point, I can (and do) also block all crap in my browser via extensions. That doesn't make the crap they are pulling legal and I refuse to click "accept" on the popup that is currently locking the machine from being used. If it does not change soon I will reclaim the license money via microsoft directly or court. All my important machines run operating systems that do not have spyware built-in. [1] https://github.com/crazy-max/WindowsSpyBlocker

Yes. I'm surprised it hasn't been mentioned here. https://github.com/crazy-max/WindowsSpyBlocker/tree/master/d... Comes in several formats: hosts, firewall, openwrt, dnscrypt. You can choose telemetry, update and extra. Has ip rules aswell as DNS rules. I am actually thinking of writing a modular openwrt luci plugin to make it easy to add to your router as it is only effective on router level as other have mentioned here. It's updated regularly, tested and one of the best lists out there, a clean copy and paste works into firewall rules as and there is nothing to install. Happy user. MS probably really dislikes this because they are adding new domains serving the same function almost every update.

I found this further down the thread, it might be of interest to you. https://github.com/crazy-max/WindowsSpyBlocker

The best way is just to block all their shit in the firewall and avoid using windows as much as possible. https://github.com/crazy-max/WindowsSpyBlocker

For SSH: https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH/wiki/Install-Win... For "unix", you can actually run linux on windows now: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/commandline/wsl/install_gui... If you want to use windows store, it acts like any other walled garden store regarding "binary blobs", but personally I have never used this. The only software I have in windows is Steam which acts like an "app store" for games. Now, I use Linux almost exclusively (there are one or two games I boot my gaming machine to windows to play), but it's actually gotten better over the years, not worse. Just remember to block all the telemetry stuff in your firewall. https://github.com/crazy-max/WindowsSpyBlocker