Monthly Archives: March 2016

Block some of Windows 10 spying behavior

Windows 10, by default, monitors everything you do on your computer and sends it to Microsoft ostensibly for marketing purposes. Some of these options can be disabled using the Privacy screens, where you can turn of most of this. However, they will silently turn themselves back on and not all spying features can be controlled this way.

One third-party product that helps with this is Spybot Anti-Beacon. In general, you want to enable all blocking options except those that you know will interfere with how you use the computer. For example, don’t block OneDrive items if you plan to use OneDrive and don’t block Bing IPs if you use anything related to Bing (i.e., home page, search engine, etc.)