I know if I want privacy use linux lol. My threat model is minimizing data sent to Microsoft, I know Windows will never be private. I’m just wondering if Windows spy blocker is still good at this point as it seems like nothing has been updated in 3 years on it. I know its list are built into simple…

If you are using LTSC, SpyBlocker and every other Windows “Anti Spyware” tool including ShutUp10 is completely redundant and thus useless (and arguably, they are even useless on other versions of windows as well, such as consumer versions). Microsoft Group Policy Editor on enterprise versions, incl…

[image] hydrogenperoxide: Often made by people who have no idea what they are doing and can thus break stuff How can we be sure that the guide at your link was written by someone who knows what they are doing?

You can read exactly what policies they suggest to change, and you can just choose to not change them if you don’t agree with them. The same cannot be said about the many scripts and programs that claim to “remove all telemetry” and “debloat” windows, which often change a bunch of stuff without sho…

Excellent advice, especially for those who don’t understand what to change. As a result, the first guide doesn’t cover all the telemetry because of security panic, while the second one actually breaks things. [image] hydrogenperoxide: The same cannot be said about the many scripts and programs…

I do understand that 3rd party tools are not recommended. I will say in the past I’ve used W10Privacy and have never had an issues with things breaking. I want to get away from using that as it does always get detected as malware. And now a days I pretty much only setup Enterprise edition and now lo…

That’s why you need to have several different layers. For instance, using Simplewall, privacy.sexy, and NextDNS together, when they are configured CORRECTLY, is a good start.

I can recommend customizing the system via gpedit, then saving these settings using LGPO. Using schneegans unattend-generator, you can further configure necessary settings and import your own policies via LGPO, applying them during unattend setup even before the system starts. Or you can do this by …

How did you get LTSC 2024? You can’t have privacy without security, and even if a script from a certain “grave” is safe, it doesn’t mean the iso you unlocked with that script is safe.

Thanks Blackbird, that pretty much what I was thinking, except simple wall just using Windows Spyblocker and using the windows firewall, I plan in the future to setup and piHole and use something like Hagezi. I was even think in the mean time using his list for windows and office on the host file fo…

I like this I will have to check that out my future goal is to just setup these settings via gpedit. Thanks :slight_smile:

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oh I’m sure it would be, But right now I don’t have anything I can setup to make a piHole and use that block list. So at minimum I was thinking why not just use Winoffice block list in the host file Until I do setup a piHole.

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