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Open-source tool to enforce privacy & security best-practices on Windows, macOS and Linux, because privacy is sexy
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[Bug]: Script dosent block mobile.events.data.microsoft.com even when telemetry is turned off in GPO and added that hostname to hosts file #387

Open ihateprogramming88 opened 3 months ago

ihateprogramming88 commented 3 months ago

Description

I am having trouble blocking this hostname which I am certain that it is related to telemetry on windows 11 enterprise. I have tried everything, gpo, regedit, hosts file, disabling services... It's like Microsoft zombie it won't die. Can someone help me understand why this isn't able to be stopped/disabled?

How can the bug be recreated?

Get an external firewall, my windows environment is in a parallels VM on macOS and I am monitoring outgoing connections from the windows VM with little snitch.

Operating system

Windows 11 Enterprise 23H2

Script file

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femdiya commented 2 months ago

I think this should be a feature request (?) I've searched in the script and couldn't find anything related to blocking this specific domain. However, I found a comment from 2020, a user asking this domain to be added into the project. https://github.com/undergroundwires/privacy.sexy/issues/26#issuecomment-684593727 echo 127.0.0.1 mobile.events.data.microsoft.com >> %WinDir%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts And for answer to your question, Under the "Connection detail" tab, it shows "0 allowed, 30 denied" which probably means that all connections to this hostname is being blocked by firewall, host, dns etc...