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I've heard that adding certain entries to the hosts file doesn't stop much of the telemetry from happening, so I wouldn't be surprised if the same was true for Windows Firewall.

I use a third party firewall with all the known telemetry domanins added to a block list.



hosts file is no help when telemetry has hardcoded IPs. Firewall will block that as long as you know those IPs, or switch to drop all and whitelist.




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