would you go this far to block Microsoft? let me know in comment below.

@goddessoftruth

Жыл бұрын

Blocking is key these days..........complicated but important.

@SurvivenTerry

Жыл бұрын

What would be vary handy would be how to keep smart home appliances working after having your VPN and the rest of your security up for a week because thats when I have to drop the shield and reset my VPN

@goddessoftruth

Жыл бұрын

@@SurvivenTerry I live an extremely simple (and boring) life.......1 BR apt only smart devices are my 2 Samsung Smart TVs.......no cameras, just my TVs, 2, soon to be 3 computers and a NAS.

@TheNetRiper

Жыл бұрын

101%

@SurvivenTerry

Жыл бұрын

@@TheGreyLineMatters he does it for the folks who dont know computers as well...there are still people out there who don't use VPN for security and they get hacked or kicked offline all the time. Don't get me wrong tho, I sometimes like to skip to the point but the less informed people need it.

Using a Microsoft tool to stop Microsoft spyware lol

@Britec09

Жыл бұрын

classic

@musicalneptunian

Жыл бұрын

Spy versus spy.

@check4566

10 ай бұрын

@@musicalneptunian😂

@iamwitchergeraltofrivia9670

8 ай бұрын

For better privacy

@RiteshKumarPanda

6 ай бұрын

Using the stones to Destroy the stones

We need this for Google, Nvidia, Asus/ROG, Dell/Alienware, HP, Razer, etc.. Sure Microsoft gathering telemetry to monitor and 'improve' Windows OS is potentially harmful, but why do the other companies need to sniff all of our data.

@Incursion.

Жыл бұрын

Don’t forget Intel and amd. They literally have spyware baked into their cpus.

@stevedoetsch

Жыл бұрын

Because we are so mindlessly willing to provide that data.

@wyleong4326

Жыл бұрын

Ads

@MrPropper69

9 ай бұрын

​@@Incursion.we cant do anything about cpus we need them for the computer to work so

@stephangauthier911

6 ай бұрын

They're selling your data. And btw, you pay taxes so your govt can buy some of that data :)

Microsoft: *"You Dare Use My Own Spells Against Me Potter"*

Microsoft:”you dare to use my own spell against me Windows firewall?!”

@MasicoreLord

Жыл бұрын

wouldn't be surprised if similar to the dns entries they start ignoring windows firewall rules blocking their own stuff if they hadn't already.

Using Windows own tools to block it's telemetry is.. Diabolical! I love it. So glad I subscribed to your channel years ago. You and Chris Titus tech tips help me to keep windows from invading my privacy. Thanks for the video.

@leozar69

7 ай бұрын

I second that

thanks bryan another good little tip. iv being watching your videos for years and you never let me down. cheers thanks for the time and effort you put in much appreciated always. from a fan

Anything that stops Microsoft or anybody else spying on us is great , more please . Thank you

Another great and informative video Brian! Keep up the great work!

@Britec09

Жыл бұрын

Thanks, will do!

Nice video, been doing this since XP (Sygate then) and Defender since then. Nice one!

Beautiful.. This video really cheered me up and I was already happy. Have a sunny weekend Brian.

@Britec09

Жыл бұрын

You too

Absolutely delighted about this video. Thank you so much!!! * Question to you sir if you don't mind. After turning on my desktop PC this morning 28/06/2023, I received a message that the Windows firewall is not on nor active. The irritating thing is that one can't get the FW to reset itself by clicking the "red reset " button as if there is nothing behind it! I used a restore to restore my system with luckily only a few problems. What I need to know is, could it be that the mass of telemetry issues turned off in the advance-section-of-the-FW would have had anything to do with crashing the firewall. If so, how can I go ahead and correct/reverse all these setting back to normal. Thank so much for your valuable video's and advice always.

Excellent video - this worked perfectly. Thanks so much

Once again, a great informative video. Thanks a lot.👍

The never ending fight for the respect of our privacy and the lengths we have to go to to get it. When will this invasiveness end? It's time to wake up people AI will just take this data collection to a whole new level.

@DavideMazzetti

Жыл бұрын

Better get rid of your smartphone, then.

@k5v1nv

Жыл бұрын

@@DavideMazzetti What's a smartphone? Lol

@musicalneptunian

Жыл бұрын

@@DavideMazzetti With all due respect that is a very unfair argument. A smartphone can be needed for personal safety.

@MrGorpm

11 ай бұрын

@@musicalneptunian Common sense and a can of mace would be a much better argument.

@rdsii64

8 ай бұрын

@@musicalneptunian Yes a smart phone can be used for personal safety, but it still harvests your data and sends it to who knows where,

Greeting Mr. Brian Interesting and valuable video ... Like more videos with respect to how to identify those services running in background that could be safely being disabled without impacting on windows performance and security ... Suggestions for your kind notice : 1. How about Google and others spyware related apps ? Any article about their IP 2. Could you kindly share txt files of the recommendation for making windows more secure 3. Any advice on Google extension from privacy perspective ... The concern what will be the best browser for banking ... But maybe that other topics Thank you for sharing ... Respectively and kind regards ❤

@Britec09

Жыл бұрын

I will take a look

Very fantastic trick to go around the problem in easy way.

I run Linux on all of my machines except one. That one machine has windows on it and I have blocked everything on it. I'll also be following this video to go even more. Thank you kindly.

Hi Brian, Thanks for putting this gr8 video up, and I`d certainly like to stop anyone from spying on me. You mentioned a few times that you'd done similar videos on this before, but in all the time I`ve followed you I cant recall seeing anything else on this subject. Could you provide the links to these videos please, because I guess there are many people like me who can look through all of your past videos BUT wont know what were looking for? Cheers and thanks for ll the help you give us.

@mrmotofy

6 ай бұрын

Click on his channel name then click on the videos tab and scroll back through all of em for any channel

@stevejarvis186

5 ай бұрын

@@mrmotofy Thanks Brian, I know how to do that, but dont know titles to look for. I`ll just try going through all of them and see if I can spot them

You are the best brother!!!!

@Britec09

Жыл бұрын

Thanks

Good video Brian. MS spying is no good

@Britec09

Жыл бұрын

Agreed

The true meaning of fighting fire with fire 😆, nice.

The only issue with this tip is the likelihood that, A. You will need to re do it after every update due to the rules being reset and or the spyware being renamed. B. Ms knowing that people do this will create backdoors through the firewall surreptitiously, probably creating exploits for hackers to take advantage of. A third party firewall might be a slightly better choice for this. On a side note. If an application that’s blocked by the third party firewall causes the computer to freeze or crash but doesn’t when blocked by the ms firewall or there’s no internet connection you know there’s something smelly going on. Especially if the application shouldn’t need internet access.

Another option is to create a custom Windows ISO with telemetry removed. Of course, that would require reinstalling Windows with the custom ISO.

@flipflopski2951

9 күн бұрын

until an update...

If you have an anti-virus program that manages the firewall would the script still work or would you have to put the block rules in the AV firewall manually, I use Bitdefender which manages windows defender on win 10.

I'm very sceptical that this works. Since early windows 10 days, svchost's connections to microsoft servers completely bypass HOSTS file blocking. The telemetry also reverts to hardcoded IP-addresses if you try to block dns queries of microsoft URLs. I have every reason to believe that for telemetry, svchost just completely ignores the built in firewall.

I have Norton looking after the Firewall on my Chuwi mini, can I still use your instructions to further block any info mining by Microsoft?

This is precisely what I was looking for! To answer the pinned comment: Absolutely I would go "this far" and MUCH further to block all telemetry going out from my devices of this nature. Im currently trying to harden a desktop that I have reformatted and reinstalled recently to ensure that it stays secure.

Thanks a lot!

@Britec09

Жыл бұрын

You're welcome!

Can I use this .bat file while using DoNotSpy11 or does DoNotSpy11 do the samething as the .bat file? Any feedback is appreacited

I've tried blocking all of microsoft cdn's, but after an update they reset my block list back to default and especially after a restarting of windows

Another straight forward way is to join a domain. Yes, that means you have to have at least Windows 10 or 11 Pro and a server running a domain controller, but I'm seriously considering putting Windows server on my file server just to be able to shut all that crap off with one simple action. If only that worked for all the other people collecting our data.

Brian mate when I click on the firewall settings in the control panel it tells me that ESET is managing these services - what do I do in my situation?? Is ESET still letting this data go through and can adding that batch file stop ESET form doing that? Now I have added that script and when I open Advanced settings I can see that script at the top of the listings and it says stopped but the rest are listed as all? Plus mate it seems to me that there are more settings to take over from the settings one blocks and it is a real circus of swings and roundabouts that one must negotiate to make sure Microsoft don't get one's data.

Blocking traffic is good, but all processes are still collecting data, I mean, as for me major priority to stop wasting hardware resources for collecting personal data. Thanks for video

@blackjaguar254

Ай бұрын

so is it not worth doing?

Awesome, thanks a lot! Not particularly the paranoiac type, buuuuut...

@Britec09

Жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it!

Well what if you use Norton 360, how do you block or does this work in the background with Norton Thanks

I did it because sometimes the updates change your privacy settings or reinstall programs you have uninstalled, like Cortana. I also blocked start and search from the firewall as well to remove ads and suggested content.

thank you!!!!

Thank you ...

I found the website linked in this video, the initial post was done September 24th 2015. Reading the comments below it on that post there are a lot of issues people are running into like not being able to access certain websites, and not being able to use windows updates. I am a very privacy focused person to the point that I use pihole and unbound dns, but I am also worried about being able to download security updates from microsoft still. This isn't me crapping on your video, it has me intrigued, but I need to investigate more first. I also saw a comment that wireshark shows microsoft can bypass it's own host file rules so I wouldn't be surprised if it can bypass it's own firewall rules too? I do use Chris Titus's script to remove telemetry and I also use O&O Shutup 10+

The batch file is dated 24/9/2015 is there an updated version as I am pretty sure MS will have added others?

This will give less latency for game and improve ping on game??

Thank You

@Britec09

Жыл бұрын

You're welcome

Is there a clear list of the most used techniques to block telemetry? I see stuff all over but it's never the same. Is this a video I can use on my system to cover most of the problem?

Thanks.

@Britec09

Жыл бұрын

You're welcome

It’s crazy what Microsoft are getting away with. Not only this but hoodwinking you into using onedrive and Microsoft accounts is worse than when they got done for their ie integration way back.

does that list work on eset?

thnak you

This is a great idea to stop MS spying, but one thing. Will it prevent MS Edge from saving my profile? A couple of times I've had to erase my hard drive & reinstall Windows 10 & the fact that Microsoft saved my Edge profile & I was able to keep all my bookmarks & browsers settings was a big timesaver for me. I don't want to lose that option.

that batch file hasnt been updated since 2015...could they have added extra tricks since then?

thnx

good stuff, great video thanks for sharing😛

@Britec09

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Awesome video. Thank you so much.. 😊

@Britec09

Жыл бұрын

My pleasure 😊

How about the scenario where I'm using a third-party security suite? Since doing so causes the Windows firewall to indicate it is off, can this trick still be used? I'm guessing not, but thought I'd ask. A great, easy way to stop them with their own work!

Would this work in my pfsense box?

Hopefully this works well as my experience with using windows firewall to block things hasn't been a great experience.

@Britec09

Жыл бұрын

I feel you, I be doing this with eset

@welshtony1

Жыл бұрын

@@Britec09 I agree. That reminds me I still need to sort that licence out haha

Does Windows Firewall have DOS/DDOS Attack protection, Buffer Overflow/Exploit/ARP Spoofing/DNS based attack prevention like Avast, AVG, Norton, ESET, Bitdefender, Kaspersky Firewalls?? Please help with relevant answer

Good article but it is old, from 2015 and for Windows 10. In Windows 11 is much more telemetry and such stuff to block.

For years I've manually used microsoft firewall and deleted unwanted registry and soon after it prompt for an update and reinstall everything i've deleted and blocked....I really would like to see a video on how to import a block list

would like to see how to do this with bitdefender

Does it interfear with Windows Defender?

Hi, can I use this tip with Norton 360?

@motoryzen

Ай бұрын

Sure windows and Windows Firewall and Defender aren't bloatware enough go ahead and add some more bloatware that's useless

Hey britec, do you recommend upgrade windows 11 or stay on 10?

@Britec09

Жыл бұрын

Windows 11 is OK, Start menu is not great and some minor other things, but they are my opinions

@yoshy2628

Жыл бұрын

I am not Britec but I can give you my 2 cents. Use win 10 or switch to modified Win 11. Win 11 official is garbage.

@GoldFus1on

Жыл бұрын

@@yoshy2628 Thanks for the input anyways

CAN I SOMEHOW USE NORTON FIREWALL FOR THIS ?

Like being trick into turning the button on, when you're told you're turning it off. 😂

Nothing changed only my firewall on public went off. I do not have diagnostic tracking service. Computer empty half the battery when I restarted it and is running little slower.

i wouldn't use a dated batch file from 2015. use nextdns instead and the block lists will update regularly. this way all ads and spyies will be blocked in every app. you don't even need a adblock for you're browser

Which one is more resource friendly: 1. Firewall as shown here 2. System32\Drivers\etc lmhost (both of them)

@TealJosh

6 ай бұрын

both are resource friendly. Neither actually work.

Doesn't stop updates? Great subject.

@Britec09

Жыл бұрын

No James

do you actually use this one? you said you use your windows as is and don't run a debloat tool, but I think this does not break stuff much, so do you actually do this one?

that article is from 2015 microsoft uses newer servers now?

O&O shutup does these things automatically or not ??

i did the stuff and after i reboot my start line on the ground dont start and if i go there with the mouse its loading / cant open start or see any programms at the clock area -.-

@degradierer8778

Жыл бұрын

after 4-6 mins the programms on the lower line shows up and start working weird

Nice.....

@Britec09

Жыл бұрын

Thanks

I have a local account with admin and I don't get an option to "run as administrator", does anyone know how to fix that?

Wouldn’t it be easier just to use hosts file ??

Hmm ....you just convinced me to switch to linux thank you so much

Microsoft can easily disable the firewall for any of its Telemetry purposes. It's already known you can't use Windows Firewall to block windows update. You have to do that at the router.

@fredrikbergquist5734

6 ай бұрын

How do I set up the router to do that?

@basspig

6 ай бұрын

@@fredrikbergquist5734 by entering the known windows update servers into your router's block list.

disable telemetry service is not enough ? need firewall to ?

@ampeg187

Жыл бұрын

If you run Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2021 then yes otherwise wont really help

Cool!

@Britec09

Жыл бұрын

Thanks

Microsoft : Wait! That's illegal!

Fighting Fire With Fire :)

What about Linux when you are using a browser?

This is cool however I am not one of those paranoid Pete's, but I am curious to know if this would work with any other firewall like Norton. This is interesting and good to know. But I also wonder if Microsoft is aware of this and how long before they make a change. This is definitely classic!

@crippledknt

Жыл бұрын

They're aware of it now.

@ripleyhrgiger4669

6 ай бұрын

It's microsoft. They were aware that people could do this with their firewall from the first day they designed it because they want you to be able to block stuff. 99% of users will never even know what a firewall is much less ever configure one to block telemetry. Theyh're not going to hamper your ability to use their firewall which is very powerful. At least in the Pro versions of Win11 which is admittedly a pay for OS and not a free one.

@mikem9536

6 ай бұрын

Is there a free version of Windows?

would it be better to use a 3rd party firewall and antivirus and would they stop MS collecting data

@Britec09

Жыл бұрын

Anti-virus is not a scam

@paoemantega8793

Жыл бұрын

@@TheGreyLineMatters You are a capitalist, you just don't know it ....

@paoemantega8793

Жыл бұрын

@@TheGreyLineMatters Those things are corruptions of capitalism, capitalism is the free market economy which allows you to freely buy things without someone else interfering in the transaction by coersion, extortion or threats. e.g. buying eggs from your neighbour. You also have power over your own means of production. e.g. sweeping their yard in return for food. These simple things are capitalism. Where you feel sick (and justifiably so in my opinion) is where the government has corrupted these things in order to control/oppress/extort you. Think of capitalism as a bicycle to get you from A to B. You now know the truth.

@WillyEckaslike

Жыл бұрын

@@Britec09 do i need an anti virus on W10...saying that i havent had any problems that i know of just using w10 security..i do have free malwarebytes but it has never found anything

Aah yes.. using the stones to destroy the stones

Could you create a dummies version of this video .. step 1 turn PC on step 2 goto control panel etc etc . Your video is great but need a step by step .thanks

I click link and nothing happens?

batch file didn't work on w10 so I added them one by one from the rules.ps1 copy and paste

remote desktop tool is now blocked, which one do i re-enable

@HmSGhengis

Жыл бұрын

I need this to access my astro mini pc

@seediffusion

11 ай бұрын

Port 3389

This helps with the OS and installed apps that collect data but does not help with data harvesting from websites you visit using a browser. There are two sides to this coin.

telemetry data collection is a legal thing. they still can not leaked the data over to the third party. every data is collected in either microsoft or subsidiary of microsoft. the moment you use any google services, your data is already collected, yes including using this youtube platform.

Ooh... I'm scared of Linux because I might have to use the Konsol... heh...

Went to the link and downloaded, opened the file, which then started to reproduce itself at the rate of 4 per second! I immediately switched off my laptop then rebooted, and went to the file and deleted it. I won't be revisiting that website again in a hurry!!!

Soon as Microsoft finds this script or video they will just change the IPs. lol

I could NOT get this Batch file to work!! After 30 minutes or so, I just about threw in the towel. This is/was SOOOOO friggen stupid of me, DON'T make this mistake or brain fart as I did. After running the Batch file, go back to your fire wall, you will see NOTHING has been, simply close or refresh, then reopen. It there now.....A simple refresh was driving me stupid!!

Last updated on: September 24, 2015. Mate I don't think this is going to do much.

Honest question I really like my privacy and definitely don't want any Apple crap and can't use Linux as 90% of my games are not available for Linux..my question is if I do this will my online games still work ie not be blocked by Steam/Amazon games?

@Lusc1nt

6 ай бұрын

I use Chris Titus's tool that has O10 shut up included and everything works fine (it's kinda similar to blocking telemetry via firewall but it does everything automatically with one click). I even gained some fps here and there😂

@zaknalfein72

6 ай бұрын

@@Lusc1nt good to know as I know smilegate/amazon games doesnt like vpns for some reasons. Also I use Norton is there a version that works with it or is it just win firewall?

Firefox blocks the download.

Windows 11 updates might turn them back on again MAYBE or NOT