With this tool you have full control over which comfort functions under Windows 10 and Windows 11 you wish to use, and you decide when the passing on of your data goes too far.

If for some ungodly reason you are using Windows or maybe are forced to. Here’s some software that will remove all the spyware from it. You have to select what you want removed manually for best results

    • CoyoteFacts@piefed.caEnglish
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      1 day ago

      As an aside, please don’t pipe arbitrary code from the internet directly into execution. Download the file and read it first. Someone could easily pwn that site and host malware at that URL, for example.

        • CoyoteFacts@piefed.caEnglish
          2·
          12 hours ago

          Weirdly, Chris does have a GitHub repo for it, which would be way more secure for serving downloads, but it’s not mentioned on the download page. We’re also assuming that Chris is trustworthy and has not included a malicious payload into this file, in which case it wouldn’t matter if the file is correct - it would still be malicious.

          My advice is don’t run things you don’t understand or that people you trust have not vouched for. If you use Linux, you inherently trust your repository maintainers to not serve you malicious code and to audit the packages they are maintaining, so you can be delivered safe software from secure repositories without needing to understand every line of code. This isn’t 100% bulletproof, as we saw with the XZ Utils backdoor, but it’s a hell of a lot safer than piping things raw.

    • Kroko@feddit.onlineEnglish
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      1 day ago

      winutil (ChrisTitusTech) doesn’t apply some setting. ShutUp10++ have more options.

  • Lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Before the “just install Linux” people show up - some things simply will not run on Linux.

    Tools like this are great for a Windows VM for random Windows-only shit. Like Toyota Techstream.

    Edit: I don’t know why I’m getting downvoted for this. I literally have a copy of Techstream for my Toyotas, hosted in a Windows VM on my laptop that runs Linux. Techstream will only run under Windows. This is not up for debate.