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Using it. Thank you

Thank you. I'm currently using Simplewall, but I will try to switch to Portmaster

Thank you!

Thank you

Would SimpleWall or Portmaster solve this issue

Microsoft is also constantly changing how stuff works, intertwining stuff so you can’t fully remove without breaking functionality. You used to get media expansion packs (stuff like av1, avif and webp support) through updates or you could download them from their site or use a Powershell command to install them, now you are forced to do it through the MS Store, and guess what happens if you uninstall the MS Store? (at least, a few months ago when I got a new Win11 install, removing MS Store removed the packages). Probably a lot of Edge removing tools are broken by now too, if you watch your network you gonna see Microsoft Edge WebView 2 calling tons of domains all the time, and if you remove it you kill your internet connection entirely (you can, however, block it on the firewall. It used to be just one service, but with some recent update it’s four different services you have to block now).

https://github.com/ShadowWhisperer/Remove-MS-Edge This still works for me.

I disabled telemetry on Linux(Arch, btw) by not installing enshittified corporate spyware masquerading as an operating system.

We have telemetry on linux?

The drivers don’t have telemetry, it’s the software that comes with it.

If drivers are not open source, how can we make sure of that?

Thank you for other suggestions.

simplewall/Portmaster can completely cut the communication of Adobe, Nvidia and whatever other program you use, so you’d technically look like you are offline to them

Thank you. I believe this is the best option for now. As I don't use their online service this would work well for me. But I'm not sure about driver updates

Thanks. I uninstalled edge webview.

https://github.com/Ultimate-Hosts-Blacklist/Ultimate.Hosts.Blacklist

Is there a better option?

Thank you!

Thanks you. Optimizer is great