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pihole recently started blocking ecs.office.com. Any idea what's triggering it? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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As the title says. I'm just curious what's triggering it. There is no MS Office installed. Happens as soon i start a windows10 pc and it's "packed" into svchost. Any idea?

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago (14 children)

With MS you never know. They are pretty arrogant and aggressive about assuming you want things running in the background. Something you can try: Install ShutUp10 and look for things like Office Telemetry being turned on. You can switch these things off (permanently or temporarily, your choice) and see if that stops the traffic.

https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10

(There are other ways to do the same thing but I've been using ShutUp10 for years and love it)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (10 children)

Thanks for sharing this. I’ve been trying to explore Linux distros after the windows snapshot announcement but the sheer variety and the hardware troubleshooting has really kept be from making the switch.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Get Win10 LTSC. It gets updates 2x/year, has very minimal bloat.

Then get O&O Shutup to reduce bloat even more.

And you can permanently license it using Microsoft's own scripts.

Scripts on Gituub.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

O&O is good, can also look into privacy.sexy to generate a script with all the stuff you want to rid yourself of. They also have several levels of preconfigured scripts (all open source) that give you a good starting point which you can review and adjust as per your preferences