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Programs/Settings I should change to minimize data scraping on Windows 11? (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Since Linux does not seem to work on my laptop (I have spent hours trying to find a fully functioning distro, it doesn't exist yet for Snapdragon), I am curious if there are different things I can do to keep Windows from tracking all of my shit.

I know that's impossible but minimizing it is desirable for me, at least. I don't want CoPilot, I don't want advertisement pop ups, anything like bloatware I fucking hate it, as we all do.

So pls let me know what you do to minimize this shit. Apps, things I should uninstall, settings I should change. If I have step by step instructions I'm not afraid to use command prompts since I got a little bit of experience with that while trying to install Linux.

Thank you all in advance for helping this luddite

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil

Set it and forget it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I've always used the win11debloat script instead.

https://github.com/Raphire/Win11Debloat

As far as I can tell they do pretty much the same things.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Any particular reason that you use one over the other, or did you just stumble across that script and just kept with it?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

I've been a linux/Unix guy my entire life so I just prefer a script that really only does one thing over a full GUI application that tries to do a whole bunch of things.

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