Stop Microsoft Windows Spying in 1 Minute

You don't have to delete the line, just put a "#" at the start of the line to comment it out. This is handy for testing or temporarily enabling access to that site. When done, remove the "#".

Windows Defender identified the new host file as a medium threat 🤣🤣

this is literally a decades old solution. I'm really surprised MS hasn't dump the hosts file by now.

Look britech in any other PC tech involving youtuber, I respect what you try to do and this includes Chris Titus Tech also, but in the end there's no way you can stop Microsoft from disrespecting your Fourth Amendment rights including privacy if you boot any computer into windows and it is connected online the internet for any reasonable amount of time even if it's one day a year let alone every day You can do all the registry edits you want you can throw all the third-party software tools you want at it but in the end and inevitable Windows update will undo any good you do at some point in time be it next week or next month or even later that year. Why? That is simple. It is because no one but Microsoft operating system software development employees has access to editing the windows core AKA kernel in which where the Windows update and Telemetry engines live There's only one guaranteed way that I can think of offhand to stop Microsoft from spying on you and that involves a two-part deal. One don't use any of their software. Two switch to Linux. Facts don't care about anyone's feelings on this

Some adresses are hardcoded and skip hosts so it's waste of time. Better make a video about simplewall which is able to block windows components to access internet

I prefer to use Pi Hole which covers my whole network from one centrally administered location. Once set up, you have a nice web interface to monitor and manage it.

Great stuff mate - I learned something new. Thank you 👍👍👍👍👍

tahk you for your videos...they are informative...well edited, concise and I have learned alot from them...

Britec09: "Stop Microsoft Windows Spying in 1 Minute!" Video: "Hello, I'm almost 9 minutes long.😁"

I won't trust MS to ship a TCP/IP stack that honors even the MS equivalent of /etc/hosts anymore. (They took BSD's TCP/IP stack and ported to Windows in the WFW days; this is why they have a "hosts" file to begin with) Since it's in "as good as it gets" territory, I make sure all my internal hosts use the DNS I hand out to them (enforced by firewall rules at the border), and my DNS goes through NextDNS, which has its own block list. Doesn't catch very much of the telemetry by default, alas, but it works well enough. I really need to weigh the benefits and the costs of using my time to play a cat-and-mouse game, which is unfortunate.

Nice one thanks for sharing

Cheers Brian! Another top video! Cutting through the snake oil and flim-flam and giving us what we really need. Thanks again!

But sometimes those domains will simply bypass the host file. It is better to block this via 3rd party Firewall or on a hardware level(rutar, or your own DNS).

Thanks for this, recently i have started adding domain names to the web filter in my router so the effect is global across my network.

Thx man!

a day before this was posted and everybody BSOD'ed hahaha. this is a nice concise tutorial. thanks mate.

thx Britec

I love how the title says 1 minute but the video is actually almost 9 minutes! That's false advertising. I want a refund!

how does it influence the Windows Updates ?

Thanks Again!