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Use a local account

If you’re not concerned with convenience and want maximum privacy, you should consider a using
a local account instead of your Microsoft account. You will lose out on a number of features,
particularly synchronization across your different devices. But if that doesn’t bother you, locate
Accounts under Settings, then click Your account. You should see the option to “Sign in with a local
account instead” just above where your picture should be.

Try O&O ShutUp 10

O&O ShutUp10

If you’d like to simplify this process, consider using O&O
Software’s free privacy tool, ShutUp 10. This tool
simplifies the privacy process by giving you a single
interface to deal with all of the myriad of settings you’d
like to enable or disable on Windows 10. You can also
simply apply all of their recommended settings.

O&O ShutUp10 is entirely free and does not have to be installed. Moreover, it will not install or
download potentially unwanted or unnecessary software (PUPs), like so many other programs do
these days!

O&O ShutUp10 allows you to
easily disable Windows 10
settings

Educate yourself about privacy
options that feel right for you

At the end of the day, you might
be tempted to throw up your
hands and give up perusing
privacy at all. You might not see
the point, since disabling certain
settings doesn’t really guarantee
that you are not being spied on,
or that your personal data isn’t
being sold or distributed.

You might feel that you might as
well have the conveniences of
certain tools then, or would prefer
more relevant advertising.

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