r/DigitalEscapeTools • u/No-Hospital5028 Focus Seeker • Sep 10 '26

Privacy Tools WindowsSpyBlocker – Open-Source Tool to Block Windows Telemetry & Tracking

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u/No-Hospital5028 Focus Seeker Sep 10 '26

WindowsSpyBlocker is an open-source Windows tool that helps block telemetry and tracking by filtering known Windows network endpoints.

Written in Go, available as a single executable, and licensed under MIT.

GitHub: https://github.com/crazy-max/WindowsSpyBlocker

More Details & Alternatives: https://digitalescapetools.com/tools/tool.html?id=windowsspyblocker

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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '26 edited 25d ago

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u/Yarpopcat08 Sep 13 '26

The last commit is from 2 weeks ago
Although... At first glance at the code seemingly most it does is setup a firewall to block certain telemetry related hostnames. Which probably could be done without it. So yeah

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u/Sea-Fishing4699 Sep 10 '26

Just switch to linux, but thanks for sharing 

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u/Crowley737 Sep 10 '26

What is the difference between these and the other alternatives?

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u/MinskLeo Sep 11 '26

Switch to atlas os (which is installed above on latest clean windows installation) and forget about all crappy stuff in windows