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Microsoft won’t support Office apps on Windows 10 after October 14th
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It's a constantly moving target. Yeah, you might block everything today, but then a windows update comes along and, poof, a bunch of the data harvesting is back on. I hope you were checking the detailed patch notes every time an update installs!
Ah yes, that's a concern - but I have a job in Task Scheduler that re-writes my registry tweaks - mostly changing various tasks back to "disabled". You can trigger it hourly, or on an event. As soon as a selected event - such as a telemetry switch-on - hits the event log, the "disable" script runs.
There's other ways, like taking ownership of the executables and changing permissions to lock out the "SYSTEM" account.
And pihole blocks DNS resolution of the telemetry harvesters as well. Windows update won't touch that. It's not 100% effective, but I couldn't be bothered to take it further.