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It’d be great if the OS told you the how and why in plain English.



That would work for anything MS considers diagnostic data, but that is not a complete picture of what it's sending and why.


Couple that with monitoring the vast amount of ETW logging providers Windows gives you, and you'll see why. E.g.: the WinHTTP provider of who (PID) contacted where including URL, DNS ETW for lookups and who (PID), etc.


While I realize it's not a solution to the issue you raised, it's worth pointing out that Microsoft does a decent* job of documenting the types of telemetry taken across the Windows platform: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/privacy/configure-...

* When I say decent, I mean this absolutely should be the bare minimum, but this type of thing feels rare in the industry.


It'd be even better if it allowed us to turn it off completely.




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