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日本Even Without Recall, Microsoft Is Still Tracking and Recording Pretty Much Everything You Do (Here’s How To Stop It)
Forget about the Copilot+ PC program that Microsoft is rolling out, there’s already enough tracking from Windows itself. Most modern software has become unbearable in terms of user privacy, but Microsoft took it a step further by choosing to implement the now-infamous Recall feature that records your activity and actions so that you can search and filter through them in case you’ve forgotten something. We’ve talked about it a fair bit, including how the supposed encryption of the data just doesn’t exist, as well as how much storage you can lose thanks to Recall.
Today we’ll show you just how much Windows tracks you on a regular basis without Recall, as well as how to disable it (there are some super quick ways including two automated tools that do it for you). Windows 10 and 11 have an Activity History feature that stores and records what websites you’ve visited, as well as how you use your machine.
In order to turn it off, open the search menu and type “Activity history” and open the first menu that pops up.
You’ll be greeted by the following page, in which you need to uncheck the “Store my activity history on this device” checkbox. After that, you can go ahead and clear your activity history with the “Clear” button.
If you want to automate the whole process of stopping any sort of tracking on your Windows machine, you can check out the Win11Debloat tool on Github. It runs an automated script that turns off every tracking setting there is, including telemetry. It also removes some bloatware apps.
There’s also the O&O ShutUp10++ app, which is free to download and use for pretty much everyone. It disables all settings and has a clean UI, so it’s easy to understand and use. It supports several languages and even has a dark mode!
