[dd9990]

Only Entreprise customers can fully opt out of all data collection. [1] All other users can only disable a subset and their PCs will submit "Basic Telemetry" regardless of what they do. Microsoft has defended this:

" Windows 10 still phones home to Microsoft with telemetry data including an anonymous device ID, information about the type of device that's being used, and data from application crashes. That sort of data has been key to solving problems with the operating system and other applications, according to an explanation published Monday from Microsoft Corporate Vice President Terry Myerson."

[1] http://www.infoworld.com/article/2987175/microsoft-windows/m...

[WayneBro]

This is incorrect. You can absolutely turn it off - http://winaero.com/blog/how-to-disable-telemetry-and-data-co...

[dd9990]

Undocumented registry edits based on peoples guesses and other hacks from random blogs are not a solution.

Microsoft has used updates to change service and update names related to Telemetry already. Some of the "tips" in the comments are also wrong, like using the hosts file to block certain domains which Telemetry services don't respect.

Unless it's a documented method from Microsoft it doesn't count. Their stated aim is that all non-Enterprise customer will take part in "Basic" telemetry. Until they change that stance, random hacks from the blogosphere are at best unreliable and at worst dangerous and give a false sense of privacy and security.

[WayneBro]

> Unless it's a documented method from Microsoft it doesn't count.

Oh, I didn't realize that we were playing a board game. No, in real life when something actually works...people can use it. The registry edit does indeed work. I've used it. Plenty of people use it. So yeah - that does too count.

Apple doesn't support HomeBrew and tons of other things that developers do on OS X, but nobody sits there and says "that doesn't count".

Linux distros don't support every single configuration that Linux users put in...but nobody says "it doesn't count".

[cm3]

The difference is that Apple doesn't actively try to prevent Homebrew from working, while Microsoft has issued updates with the purpose to rename NT services and other things, in order to defeat the workarounds.