{"id":18082,"date":"2026-07-19T15:06:39","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T22:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/?p=18082"},"modified":"2026-07-19T15:06:39","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T22:06:39","slug":"microsoft-spying-in-2026-is-crazy-and-vpn-cant-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/2026\/07\/19\/microsoft-spying-in-2026-is-crazy-and-vpn-cant-help\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Spying in 2026 is crazy and VPN can&#8217;t help!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some details and possibly a couple processes you can kill to maybe stop it. My recommendation is to just not run software from Microsoft. I have a <a href=\"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/2026\/07\/17\/microsoft-stamped-a-secret-number-in-your-windows-pc-a-vpn-cant-hide-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">post<\/a> with an article on how Microsoft tracking you like a dog has come to be known. And with the move towards digital ID and tracking us in detail, you just have to assume all operating systems that aren&#8217;t opensource are doing this in one way or another, or soon to add it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Microsoft Spying in 2026 is crazy and VPN can&amp;apos;t help!\" width=\"1290\" height=\"726\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1RFpcnsZUzQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some details and possibly a couple processes you can kill to maybe stop it. My recommendation is to just not run software from Microsoft. I have a post with an article on how Microsoft tracking you like a dog has come to be known. And with the move towards digital ID and tracking us in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","category-world"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Jason","author_link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/author\/jturning\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18083,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18082\/revisions\/18083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}