[t-writescode]

So, I've been pretty aggressive in all the Windows 10 settings, and I have a PiHole set up for my DNS. What I've noticed is that my PiHole barely lights up for Windows 10, especially compared to how loud it lit up for Windows 8, after all of those privacy violating features from Windows 10 were shoved into Windows 8.

It seems, at least from my experimentation, that Windows 10 is actually quieter when you put all the privacy stuff up - either that, or the other ones are so inactive that they don't show up in my PiHole.

Current statistics show least popular top permitted domain on my computer to be hit 258 times a day and nothing above it is Microsoft.

Top Blocked Domains from Microsoft include: settings-win.data.microsoft.com ( > 100 ) v10.events.data.microsoft.com ( > 80 )

It's pretty darn quiet. I think Windows 8, after the telemetry updates, was was many times that.

edit: small disclosure: I did work for Microsoft around 7 years ago. I did work in the Windows org, though. These thoughts are my own and I very much hate the tracking that Microsoft does, even at the bare minimum without a toggle switch to turn it all of.