Congratulations professional Windows administrator. You are definitely not their target audience. And using group policies to disable the 100 different things this tool disables would be a ton of work... and I'm not even sure you can disable everything this tool does via group policies?
> I'm not even sure you can disable everything this tool does via group policies?
Apparently you cannot:
> On May 2017 a security researcher named Mark Burnett demonstrated that disabling the default data collection toggles, found in Windows 10's settings app, are entirely useless. Furthermore he showed that even through using intensive group policy modifications, in a process heavily scrutinized and iterated upon over several days, he was not able to prevent Windows 10 from sending critical, personally identifiable information with certainty.
In my last job I had contact with Microsoft and I approached them about datamining issues several times. I noticed they simply don't understand the concerns at all. Microsoft is becoming a highly 'data driven' company and every time I approached them about data gathering the response was along the lines of "Oh but we only use this for improving your performance / our products / whatever". They think it matters what the purpose is, they don't understand (or they don't want to!) that some people are against telemetry whatever the reason.
Our own company is thinking along similar lines, with the exception of the German parts of the business, for whom we had to make some exceptions. I'm not German but I'm heavily aligned with their thinking on this.
