The two online best is called disable Windows 10 tracking.
Now they all have similar names.
It's a little bit confusing.
But this one is by 10.
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And you can see here this is the address to get it from.
You can get the Python version here or if you scroll down you can find the executable version here and
then you just need to download that.
So it is open source.
It's written in Python.
You are able to revert back once you've made a change if you want to go back from that setting.
And it also has an explanation for each of the settings that you can make and it has a log after it's
made the changes which is good.
Now before you use this tool I recommend that you do a backhoe back up all the things that were important
to you.
And if you can create a System Restore point I'll now take you through all the options so you can understand
what needs to be enabled and disabled.
And even if you don't use this tool it gives you a better understanding of what exactly is enabled and
disabled as part of disabling tracking.
So I have the executable version here and this will need to be run as an administrator because it needs
to make changes that require administrator access such as changes to the host file.
And this is the interface here.
The first thing to be aware of is the modes you've got privacy and you've got Rava privacy mode is where
it's going to make all of the privacy changes and the revert mode is when you want to go back on the
changes that you've made.
So obviously we want to be on the privacy mode to start with to make changes.
Now the first one is services.
This gives you the ability to disable or delete to services and those services or the diagnostics tracking
service and the WAP push message routing service both of which you don't want for the purposes of stopping
tracking.
So disable is pretty safe.
The key is getting rid of them completely so disable is fine.
Next is clear diag track log.
This clears and disables rise to the log located in the program data.
Microsoft diagnostics e t l Loeb's auto Laaga.
And if you hover over the edge you'll see an explanation Rufa explanation of what these things are.
Next is telemetry.
Now you'll notice that if you click on telemetry it will automatically select this because it is this
method that is disabling your telemetry and that is adding IP addresses to the host file.
Now telemetry is setting's privacy feedback and diagnostics.
So it's this is disabling that.
And here is a house file.
This is usually located in the Windows system 32 driver ATC.
So right click on this open with
Notepad.
There you see the host file content.
The next one you have is block even more tracking domains like that one here.
If I go a menu an options you'll see we have domains to be blocked and then we've got the extra domains
to be blocked so they taught one.
Here is this and this one here is this the actual arms.
So you can add or remove any domains that you wish.
Now you can search online for any extra domains that you might want to remove.
Now if you just do a simple search for Windows 10 IP addresses to block you'll find forums and other
things where you can add extra here to blog.
But do note this could disable certain functionality that you DO want but you know these these are all
things that need to be tested.
So what is block tracking IP address is what makes this different.
Is this is blocking using the Windows Firewall and you'll see firewall rules are being created if you
select this these fow rules you'll notice because they'll be titled tracking IP X replacing X with the
IP address numbers.
This one switches off defender and Wi-Fi sends data collection defender is the antivirus for Windows
so it stops messages being sent from there.
That is a security issue to stop those five cents is a way of sending y fi passwords of networks that
you're connected to and you have access to to other people that you know.
This is a potential privacy issue.
It is something that you can configure stop defender is changing the automatic sample submission and
the delivery optimization download mode and Wi-Fi sense is changing the credential share and the openness
settings.
Then you have one drive simply on installing one drive.
So we have this set for privacy or we need to do now is click go so click go
and here we can see the results and we get this little log here and it creates a log hey you can read
some error messages there that we can follow up on.
So thats an access denied for Windows Defender.
Thats fine.
And we can check out some of the changes that it made.
As the host file no change had been made to that because we need to refresh open
Notepad and they see all the changes to the whole file all of these are getting sent to 0 0 0 0 and
if you look at the final
if you look outbound connections there we can see the IP addresses that are being at address any Procol
any pool.
All of these are being blocked.
So these are the ones that are hard coded into delouse within the operating system.
And there you have it.
Now of course you can revert back if you want.
So if we right click Run as Administrator.
Quick Yes
and set the things that we want to revert back.
Well not like that because that takes a little bit of time.
Revert.
Go and get our report checked the host file.
You can see all of those IP addresses are no longer being sent to the home and
refreshing those we can see all of the firewall rules have been removed.
Again so nice little tool.