Windows 10 Can Share Your Wi-Fi Password With Facebook

[corkyg]

Another MS port of entry can be closed by disabling One Drive if you have 10 Pro.

 

[PrincessFrosty]

I wonder if we can defeat some of the Windows 10 unwanted "sharing" by using entries in a Host file?

Some but not all, for some telemetry the IPs are hardcoded into the binaries so no DNS lookup is required and so host files entries doesn't work.

You need a firewall to ideally stop everything, the basic install of Tinywall will block everything and allow you to whitelist whatever you need, the fastest and lightest way of fixing this problem.

 

[Spacehead]

I wonder if we can defeat some of the Windows 10 unwanted "sharing" by using entries in a Host file?

Someone's trying it

From this thread in OS

 

[Zahid Iqbal]

From privacy point of view, it is worst. I don't recommend it

 

[Harvey]

It’s not just Windows 10, Windows 7 and 8 are also tracking you.

You can uninstall all of them from the command prompt run with Administrator privileges:

wusa /uninstall /kb:3068708 /quiet /norestart
wusa /uninstall /kb:3022345 /quiet /norestart
wusa /uninstall /kb:3075249 /quiet /norestart
wusa /uninstall /kb:3080149 /quiet /norestart

Though it wasn't mentioned in the linked article, I'd guess this would also apply to KB305583 in Win 10 (and 7 and 8 if applicable).

Once the updates are uninstalled, use the Windows Update mechanism to “hide” them so that your operating system doesn’t try to reinstall them.

 

[TomFoster]

I wonder if we can defeat some of the Windows 10 unwanted "sharing" by using entries in a Host file?

I think Windows ignores what is in the Hosts file for Microsoft stuff, seem to remember reading that? Maybe I'm wrong...I'm not sure!

I've opted out on my Win 10 laptop, if anyone comes round with another Windows 10 laptop I might have to change my SSID!

 

[JEDIYoda]

That is good. I do not share my Wi-Fi with anyone - in fact, I rarely use it. I have always considered Wi-Fi as high risk and insecure.

agreed!! I change wifi password almost every twice a month...you never really know!!

 

[JEDIYoda]

the basic install of Tinywall

-- umm tiny? really??

 

[debian0001]

I've starting moving to Linux.The only Windows will be my laptop that I use for gaming on my TV and a VM. There's too many privacy concerns and it will get worse...