Windows 10 Tracks Everything You Do and You Can't Stop It
MICROSOFT has admitted that Windows 10 users are powerless to stop the operating systems’ controversial data collection.
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Users are unable to turn off all of the data collection baked into Windows 10. Following the news Windows 10 will be installing itself on computers across the globe, it’s worth paying close attention to this latest statement Microsoft Corporate Vice President Joe Belfiore.
Speaking about the controversial keylogger included during installations of Windows 10, the Microsoft Vice President has admitted that users are powerless to stop the US firm’s data collection.
Despite offering a number of options to disable elements of tracking, core data collection in Windows 10 cannot be stopped, he revealed in an interview with PC World.
“In the cases where we’ve not provided options, we feel that those things have to do with the health of the system,” he said.
“In the case of knowing that our system that we’ve created is crashing, or is having serious performance problems, we view that as so helpful to the ecosystem and so not an issue of personal privacy, that today we collect that data so that we make that experience better for everyone.”
The interview confirms a level of mandatory data collection within Windows 10 many had dismissed as the ramblings of conspiracy theorists.
It was previously thought Microsoft would only include the background keylogger – which tracks every word you type – within its Technical Preview versions of the operating system.
Microsoft Corporate VP Joe Belfiore admitted users are powerless to stop the data collection Tracking the keystrokes of Windows Insiders using the pre-release Technical Preview would allow the US firm to use the vast data to tweak and improve the final release.
However the slightly creepy software is now included as standard in the commercial version of Windows 10. And it cannot be turned off, the new revelation has confirmed.
Microsoft has waited some four months since the release of Windows 10 to come clean about the core data collection processes working in the background of the operating system.
This also marks the first time the Redmond firm has acknowledges that switching off all user accessible options does not stop all of Microsoft’s tracking.
Mr Belfiore added: “We’re going to continue to listen to what the broad public says about these decisions, and ultimately our goal is to balance the right thing happening for the most people – really, for everyone – with complexity that comes with putting in a whole lot of control.”
Windows 10 Home, installed with default settings, has the ability to send your hardware details and any subsequent changes you make to Microsoft, log your internet browser history, keystrokes, Cortana questions and requests, display advertisements within your Start Menu and even control your bandwidth usage.
Even if you can’t disable everything, Microsoft does allow you to control some of its data collection policies by navigating to Start > Settings > Privacy.
Despite the controversy surrounding its data collection policies, Microsoft aims to have Windows 10 running one a billion devices within two years of its launch.
The US technology firm recently announced the final date PC manufacturers will be able to sell new computers running Windows 7 or Windows 8.1.
However Microsoft has had a number of issues with Windows 10 since its release earlier this summer.
Microsoft records every tap on the keyboard in Windows 10 – to improve the product in later updatesUsers have reported frustratingly slow boot-up speeds, trouble with wifi connections, privacy concerns and issues with child safety features following the jump to Windows 10.
Windows 10 is currently a free operating system upgrade to customers running genuine versions of Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 8.1.
If you have managed to get your version of Windows 10 up and running smoothly – Express.co.uk has rounded up SEVEN top tips to master your new operating system.
And if you are feeling negative towards the new operating system, here are the WORST features Microsoft included in Windows 10.
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I believe Microsoft has succumbed to the BEAST and his FALSE PROPHET. Now anyone can track your WHOLE life on that personal computer of yours.
From your deepest thoughts to every penny you spend. Do you want strangers to know this??
I’m not much on the “Beast and False Prophet” jargon, but I agree with your overall assessment of personal computers, Pink Slime, for sure. The negro in the W.H. is laughing at most of us with all his minions! And even though I support Trump (who WILL be President), I’m under NO illusions that even he will curtail the espionage…
Yes it’s the digital confessional, especially when you consider that most all federal agency’s like the N$A, F bee eye and C eye A and also many major corporations are controlled by the je$uits… Dats Y eye TIPE SO FUNEE. Anyone who would say that that isn’t true need only watch this video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODP1tSt3DAg fast forward it to about 11 min. 45 sec. and watch the next several minutes.
You CAN stop it. Learn what an HOSTS file is and you can block anything. Or use your router to block any IP that’s spying on you. Way to easy to circumvent. If you know computers…
Let me help you a little further. The file’s in C:/windows/system32/drivers/etc/HOSTS
Open the file with notepad (as admin) and add these lines to the end:
0.0.0.0 204.79.197.200
0.0.0.0 23.218.212.69
0.0.0.0 i1.services.social.microsoft.com
0.0.0.0 i1.services.social.microsoft.com.nsatc.net
0.0.0.0 feedback.windows.com
0.0.0.0 feedback.microsoft-hohm.com
0.0.0.0 feedback.search.microsoft.com
You forgot a few:
0.r.msn.com
a.ads1.msn.com
a.ads2.msn.com
a.rad.msn.com
ac3.msn.com
act-3-blu.mesh.com
activesync.glbdns2.microsoft.com
ad.doubleclick.net
ads.eu.msn.com
ads.msn.com
ads.msn.com.nsatc.net
ads1.msads.net
ads1.msn.com
ads2.msn.com
ads2.msn.com.c.footprint.net
adsmockarc.azurewebsites.net
adsyndication.msn.com
aidps.atdmt.com
aidps.msn.com.nsatc.net
aka-cdn-ns.adtech.de
analytics.live.com
analytics.microsoft.com
analytics.msn.com
analytics.msnbc.msn.com
analytics.r.msn.com
appexmapsappupdate.blob.core.windows.net
arc2.msn.com
arc3.msn.com
arc9.msn.com
atlas.c10r.facebook.com
b.ads1.msn.com
b.rad.msn.com
bat.bing.com
bingads.microsoft.com
bl3302.storage.skyprod.akadns.net
blu.mobileads.msn.com
bn1-2cd.wns.windows.com
bn1cd.wns.windows.com
bn1wns2011508.wns.windows.com
bn2wns1.wns.windows.com
bn2wns1b.wns.windows.com
bs.eyeblaster.akadns.net
bs.serving-sys.com
c.atdmt.com
c.atdmt.com.nsatc.net
c.bing.com
c.microsoft.com
c.msn.com
c.msn.com.nsatc.net
c.ninemsn.com.au
c.no.msn.com
c1.microsoft.com
cdn.atdmt.com
cdn.content.prod.cms.msn.com
cds26.ams9.msecn.net
choice.microsoft.com
choice.microsoft.com.nsatc.net
cmsresources.windowsphone.com
col.mobileads.msn.com
compatexchange.cloudapp.net
content.windows.microsoft.com
corp.sts.microsoft.com
corpext.msitadfs.glbdns2.microsoft.com
cs1.wpc.v0cdn.net
dart.l.doubleclick.net
db3aqu.atdmt.com
dc.services.visualstudio.com
dev.virtualearth.net
df.telemetry.microsoft.com
diagnostics.support.microsoft.akadns.net
diagnostics.support.microsoft.com
digg.analytics.live.com
directory.services.live.com.akadns.net
displaycatalog.md.mp.microsoft.com
dl.delivery.mp.microsoft.com
dmd.metaservices.microsoft.com
# dns.msftncsi.com
download-ssl.msgamestudios.com
ecn.dev.virtualearth.net
en-us.appex-rf.msn.com
fe2.update.microsoft.com.akadns.net
fe3.delivery.dsp.mp.microsoft.com.nsatc.net
fe3.delivery.mp.microsoft.com
feedback.microsoft-hohm.com
feedback.search.microsoft.com
feedback.windows.com
fesweb1.ch1d.binginternal.com
ff4a487e56259f4bd5831e9e30470e83.azr.msnetworkanalytics.testanalytics.net
flex.msn.com
flex.msn.com.nsatc.net
g.msn.com
g.msn.com.nsatc.net
geo-prod.do.dsp.mp.microsoft.com
global.msads.net.c.footprint.net
h1.msn.com
h2.msn.com
help.bingads.microsoft.com
i1.services.social.microsoft.com
i1.services.social.microsoft.com.nsatc.net
inference.location.live.net
js.microsoft.com
lb1.www.ms.akadns.net
licensing.md.mp.microsoft.com
live.rads.msn.com
livetileedge.dsx.mp.microsoft.com
logging.windows.microsoft.com
m.adnxs.com
m.anycast.adnxs.com
mediadiscovery.microsoft.com
microsoft-hohm.com
# msftncsi.com
msnportal.112.2o7.net
msntest.serving-sys.com
oca.telemetry.microsoft.com
oca.telemetry.microsoft.com.nsatc.net
onesettings-bn2.metron.live.com.nsatc.net
onesettings-cy2.metron.live.com.nsatc.net
onesettings-db5.metron.live.com.nsatc.net
onesettings-hk2.metron.live.com.nsatc.net
otf.msn.com
popup.msn.com
pre.footprintpredict.com
rad.live.com
rad.msn.com
rad.msn.com.nsatc.net
redir.metaservices.microsoft.com
reports.wes.df.telemetry.microsoft.com
rmads.eu.msn.com
rmads.msn.com
rpt.rad.msn.com
sb.scorecardresearch.com
schemas.microsoft.akadns.net
secure.adnxs.com
secure.anycast.adnxs.com
secure.flashtalking.com
services.wes.df.telemetry.microsoft.com
settings.data.microsoft.com
settings-sandbox.data.glbdns2.microsoft.com
settings-sandbox.data.microsoft.com
settings-ssl.xboxlive.com
settings-win.data.microsoft.com
sgmetrics.cloudapp.net
shell.windows.com
siweb.microsoft.akadns.net
skyapi.skyprod.akadns.net
sls.update.microsoft.com
sls.update.microsoft.com.akadns.net
sls.update.microsoft.com.nsatc.net
sO.2mdn.net
spynet.microsoft.com
spynet2.microsoft.com
spynetalt.microsoft.com
sqm.df.telemetry.microsoft.com
sqm.microsoft.com
sqm.telemetry.microsoft.com
sqm.telemetry.microsoft.com.nsatc.net
ssw.live.com
ssw.live.com.nsatc.net
static.2mdn.net
static-2mdn-net.l.google.com
statsfe1.ws.microsoft.com
statsfe1.ws.microsoft.com.nsatc.net
statsfe2.update.microsoft.com.akadns.net
statsfe2.ws.microsoft.com
statsfe2.ws.microsoft.com.nsatc.net
storeedgefd.dsx.mp.microsoft.com
support.msn.microsoft.akadns.net
survey.watson.microsoft.com
t.urs.microsoft.com.nsatc.net
t0.ssl.ak.dynamic.tiles.virtualearth.net
t0.ssl.ak.tiles.virtualearth.net
telecommand.telemetry.microsoft.com
telecommand.telemetry.microsoft.com.nsatc.net
telemetry.appex.bing.net
telemetry.appex.search.prod.ms.akadns.net
telemetry.microsoft.com
telemetry.urs.microsoft.com
tile-service.weather.microsoft.com
tlu.dl.delivery.mp.microsoft.com
udc.msn.com
urs.microsoft.com
version.hybrid.api.here.com
view.atdmt.com
vortex.data.microsoft.com
vortex-bn2.metron.live.com.nsatc.net
vortex-cy2.metron.live.com.nsatc.net
vortex-hk2.metron.live.com.nsatc.net
vortex-sandbox.data.glbdns2.microsoft.com
vortex-sandbox.data.microsoft.com
vortex-win.data.microsoft.com
w3.b.cap-mii.net
watson.live.com
watson.microsoft.com
watson.microsoft.com.nsatc.net
watson.ppe.telemetry.microsoft.com
watson.telemetry.microsoft.com
watson.telemetry.microsoft.com.nsatc.net
wes.df.telemetry.microsoft.com
win10.ipv6.microsoft.com.nsatc.net
http://www.modern.ie
# http://www.msftncsi.com
You can add those at the cost of loosing functionality. The ones I posted doesn’t make MSN die :they just are the telemetry sites where data is collected from your Windows use. better to ad ublock origin, or other add-/malware blocker, to your browser and add some off the extra filter options. This way it’s easier to control what you block and not. Because you lose some functionality.
Been using all of the ones I posted for the better part of a year, mate, and my system runs like greased lightning.
Some of these break basic download functionality from most Microsoft sites. While you took the shotgun approach I’d advise others to beware as this may wind up breaking Windows Update/Xbox & Microsoft downloads/etc.
I know computers very well, speaking personally.
Even so, however, I’m sticking with 8.1 until support ends….then migrating totally to Linux. My 8.1 system is as spy-free as a post Win-7 MS o.s. can be, due to the fact that I am as tech-savvy as I am. I know that I could just as easily lock down a Win-10 install for myself….but I just friggin HATE the fugly o.s. with a passion. I’m also a theme-builder, and I loathe the lack of customization options in 10. I know that there are some pretty nice themes for 10 out there (and I’m friends with many of the theme-builders), but they are NOTHING even close to being on par with those that you could create for XP, Vista, 7 and 8+. A third of the o.s. is written in XAML (“zammel”), too, which is a total pain in the ass.
I’ve already migrated to Slackware Linux for all my needs other then an occasional Windows title. Games run best on Win 10. The ones I played so far at least.
Yea, my Win 8.1 is primarily used for Photoshop and a few other things such as high-end music editing.
” runs like greased lightning”
You have seen nothing yet on your banger car raceing
Using a proxy server with a file cache on the LAN will double your speed again and then you have fake 304′s
if you already have a file in the browsers cache then a HTTP resuest is sent out that say something like “I’ve got this file, it’s eTag number is 123456, have you got a new file or should i use the one i’ve got”
The proxy server can then intercept the request and just send back a message saying “Use the file you have got”
” I know that I could just as easily lock down a Win-10 install for myself”
I agree with most of what you say but not this and un-ticking options in windows and even hacking the registry, killing services plus schedual taks will not stop it all and microsoft wants you to have a false scence of security and in windows 10 us developers are being locked out all over the place and you cannot kill the process “SiHost” that hosts Cortina without windows wanting to shut down.
Linux is the answer but i’m too deep in bed with microsoft to be any use at doing much good on a new O/S
Yes, killing sihost.exe results in this message popping up:
I’m like “No thanks, Microsoft – don’t “try to fix it”. A lack of Cortana and your feeble Start Menu don’t a broken system make!”
As to your file cache proxy server thing, I’ll look into that one. Don’t see how getting ‘fake 304s’ can possibly be good….
I agree with your comment to ‘A Commentator’ below. People seem to use that canard about “not doing anything illegal” on the computer…. missing the entire point…. and not understanding that what’s perfectly legal today just might be woefully ILLEGAL tomorrow. Such as some kind of “hate speech”…. or maybe those Hawaii vacation photos that has partially dressed under-aged family members enjoying themselves in the sun on the beach…. People like that are all complacent and smug until their door gets busted down one morning and the po-po come crashing in and shoot their dog and stick loaded guns in their faces! PRIVACY IS A MUST-HAVE, AT LEAST AT THE O.S. LEVEL.
My system boots up, from dead, in about 13 seconds:
… my drives are solid-state …
… unneeded “services” totally disabled, telemetry blocked …
… traffic encrypted, i.p. hidden (I’m routed through Japan atm) …
… and yes, is as fast as greased lightning.
Yes in windows 95 you could use the etc/hosts file to block anything but microsoft has now put blocks on blocks
Do you know what “Whois” is and about ASN’s ? Checkout ASN 8075 that is owned by microsoft because that alone has about 200 IP-Ranges that account for about 16 million ip-addressses and in total Microsoft has about 50 million to call home on.
The only router that allows you to go to these lengths is something like a Sonciwall using a hacked WebSence service and they are so complicated to maintain unless you are using them all the time that mine now sits in a box and is not used and to buy new it would cost about $800
Google (scum) keep switching IP-Addresses and mixes up theres with Youtube IP’s and you could say that using content filtering in the router is the answer but most of what they are doing uses SSL on port 443 and you can only see the Hosts name and thats only with some Routers.
Runing your own DNS server with a tracking protection list on the LAN and blocking all other devices from using UDP on port 53 in the router is a good option but no one, i said no one can stop windows calling home 100% of the time even if they go to exstream lengths like me.
Well, for what it’s worth, a good VPN is another layer of protection. I have a good paid one, paid-up for a year. My VPN offers several excellent end-to-end encryption methods for your tunneled traffic, various proxy configs (with on-the-fly username/password generation), and have a solid reputation. They also claim to KEEP NO LOGS, which is good.
Now I’m sure you can make the argument that VPNs aren’t 100% fool-proof, that they might be lying about keeping no personally identifiable server/usage-logs, etc., etc., etc…. All I can say to those types of arguments is that NOTHING is “100%” (except a sledge-hammer to your device, destroying it and never using the www), but a reputable VPN service plus doing some clever tech gymnastics with certain MS “services”, the Hosts file, cookies, the registry, USING A LOCAL ACCOUNT instead of a MS one, etc., can make your system quite a bit more secure than it would be otherwise. And NOT being predictable is also a good practice.
You can just use a Linux system like Tails coupled with TOR BROWSER if you’re really paranoid. Me, I’m not quite THAT paranoid…
Microsoft has done this since Windows 95.
Yes, that means they know all about your browsing habits and have shared them with the FBI.
Hope you weren’t doing anything illegal.
95 was nice and only need 4mb of memory to run and not 1000 times that at least for windows 7 upwards and developers like me might not had known it all but we could stay in control.
Today we know little about whats under the hood and are being locked out all over the place and windows has become a remote terminal for microsoft and not an O/S
The internet is all controlled by large US corporations and our private data is being replicated and exchanged as if “Data” is some type of currency and has worth but the killer is that it’s now being feed into A.I systems that are becoming so smart that they will know what time your going to get out of bed before you know.
“Hope you weren’t doing anything illegal.”
Everything is becoming “Hate Speech” and we are all terrorists now !
“Everything is becoming “Hate Speech” and we are all terrorists now!”
Not me, baby…
…Ah’m an ENTERTAINER.
Ain’t no terrorist ever gonna hit Las Vegas.
Running Windows 95 on 4MB of RAM would be numbingly slow even by mid 90s standards.
I had more than 4MB of RAM when DOS was the best OS.
Windows 10 sucks. Not only is it slow it also collects data. I often get stuck pages on my browser and have to reload explorer to get it unstuck or even reboot the computer. Some weird background processes are running, not to mention all the websites are loaded with advertisements and take for ever to load. I miss the XP experience that rarely if ever caused me problems. Unfortunately my new laptop did not come with a dvd player and I don’t even have that DVD with me anymore.
You’re using internet explorer?!?! That’s a huge problem right there. It’s horrible, use Chrome, https://www.google.com/chrome/browser/desktop/ or if you fear Google, use any other Mozilla based one https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/ in Chrome you can install adblock https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/adblock/gighmmpiobklfepjocnamgkkbiglidom whcih makes advertising almost completely gone.
The ads are not caused by Windows 10, they are part of the website you’re on, or you have a virus if you’re getting ads that are not part of the website.
Windows 10 should work fine for you, it runs fine on my high end PC, and it even runs pretty good on my $99 laptop/tablet. The speed of your Windows use, depends heavily on how much you spent on your computer.
If it’s a $100-$300 computer, it’s not going to run very fast, and website with a lot of ads or animation, or extra stuff going on, aren’t going to run very well, compared to a $500-$1000 computer.
The fact that yours doesn’t have a disc drive, tells me it most likely sits in the first category there.
First things first, follow my links and get yourself a new web browser. Might take some getting used to, but you’ll be happier in the end. Also Google “Windows 10 performance improvements” or check out this one I already found http://searchenterprisedesktop.techtarget.com/tip/Make-Windows-10-performance-sing-by-tweaking-RAM-service-settings
Those might require a little know how, but as long as you follow the guide, you should be fine.
Or, if you REALLY hate Windows 10, you could always install Windows XP by buying a disc online, Amazon perhaps, https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dsoftware&field-keywords=Microsoft+Windows+XP+Home+Edition&rh=n%3A229534%2Ck%3AMicrosoft+Windows+XP+Home+Edition
And a external disc drive that plugs into USB, https://www.amazon.com/LG-Electronics-Portable-External-GP65NB60/dp/B00ODDE33U/ref=sr_1_4?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1467764442&sr=1-4&keywords=external+dvd+drive
You might need another computer nearby though, because after you install Windows XP on your new laptop, it might not have all the drivers you need to make stuff like WiFi work. You might need to use another computer to download XP drivers, for the hardware in your new computer.
This started in Windows 95, fyi.
They just didn’t tell you about it.
netscape was a real game changer
I heard that you can run Ubuntu on Windows 10. Would that change anything