If this isn’t a reason to switch to Linux, I don’t know what is! I should have posted this sooner, just in case if it helps. This should piss you off as much as it does me. More shady ass ways data is being sent back to Microsoft. You have to switch off all kinds of shit! I assume you might know this already. But, just in case you are still on Windows and don’t know. Next, you also can go to the recovery tab and select take no action, just in case Windows tries to re enable it after a Windows update. Also, turn off the telemetry setting in settings shown in photos. There might be more that I don’t even know about.
It also stores your search history!
Who knows what required data they are sending!
More garbage.
at least on LTSC 2019, after extensive tweaking on gpedit/regedit i could confirm no unwanted background network traffics at all. but having to actively fight the OS is really awful… and an update brings some of them back.
At that point just use Linux. I remember even in windows 10 trying to debloat windows with numerous scripts, and different base iso. If anything it made windows more unstable and even more useless, more than it actually helped.
I know change is hard but its really easy, especially if you are mad, and carry that energy with you.
nah i’m already more of a *nix guy than windows. but i still have numerous things that work better with windows. my main laptop runs slackware and my desktop freebsd.
Ensure your network firewall filters outward traffic as well.