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Leave Windows 11 Idle For 24 Hours, It Sends Over 3000 Telemetry Pings To More Than 100 Different Servers. (www.youtube.com)

submitted 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) by Anonymous_Leaker@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Boy, the good ole days are gone when it comes to Windows. I am posting just to help anybody that doesn't know. This is like a creepy wire tap. If you are actually using Windows 11, make sure to disable and or reduce telemetry in Windows 11 (Privacy). If that actually helps, I am sure there are more ways they send data back but the video link is a simple how to.

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[–] Anonymous_Leaker@lemmy.world 4 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

How much RAM?

[–] twoBrokenThumbs@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

I also run Win11 with 8GB of ram just fine. To be fair though, its a virtual machine and not my daily driver. But the main reason it works is because I used an Ameliorated package that basically strips down the OS to what it should be. (ameliorated.io) I highly recommend it.

[–] ramble81@lemmy.zip 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

16GB

[–] Anonymous_Leaker@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

But do you run it comfortably with 40 tabs open like me with 8gb?...

[–] ramble81@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Hahaha. That’s your own damn fault. Close some tabs, and use bookmarks.

[–] Anonymous_Leaker@lemmy.world 0 points 4 hours ago

Think again. No it isn't, I could do that on Linux. That is Windows fault.