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Windows 10 spies on your use of System Settings (2021)


Windows 10 spies on your use of System Settings

The computer in question was running Windows 10 Home Edition, service pack 20H2, build 19042.1083, which means it has bug fixes as of July 6, 2021. Personally, I modify my router (the Pepwave Surf SOHO) to resolve queries to domains that I want to block to zero, which is an invalid IP address. Blocking it on the entire LAN means that it can not be used as a search engine, so I went old school and modified the "hosts" file in Windows to force www.bing.com to resolve to a zero IP address.

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