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How to Disable Telemetry Across Windows and Popular Applications (reddthat.com)

submitted 6 days ago by tatoko556@reddthat.com to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Are there any open-source tools that allow me to disable telemetry for Adobe, Windows, Microsoft, NVIDIA, AMD, GitHub Desktop, Docker Desktop, VS Code, and other applications? How can I disable telemetry and enhance my overall Windows experience?

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[–] Steve@communick.news 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I recently discovered ReviOS. I just did a clean re-install of Windows with it. And its been great for the last few days. No dumb bloatware or spyware. Though not so privacy crazy as to break things. Supposedly it's changes can't be rolled back with updates due to the techniques they use. We'll see