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Microsoft's 'Recall' feature can't be uninstalled after all (mashable.com)

submitted 2 months ago by 1984@lemmy.today to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] r_deckard@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There's always the Microsoft telemetry blocklist in pihole. If you can't stop the computer collecting the data, you can stop MS getting hold of it.

[–] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago

It's not a 100% guarantee, they can easily bypass your DNS by either just connecting to another DNS sever over plain, unencrypted DNS (UDP on 53), or use something more sophisticated like DNS-over-TLS or DNS-over-HTTPS.

You can reroute unencrypted DNS requests to your Pi-Hole using a firewall like OPNSense, but things get more complicated with DoT and DoH