Windows 11 ships with a lot of conveniences—but also with telemetry and cloud‑connected features that quietly phone home by default, and three third‑party tools (O&O ShutUp10++, Spybot Anti‑Beacon, and a VPN) are frequently recommended as a practical toolkit to seriously limit that data flow...
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I sometimes work from my home office and remotely connect to my company's network via VPN using Cisco AnyConnect. The VPN adapter is supposed to support split tunneling, and I assumed that since it's only necessary to use it for certain applications (like SalesLogix), that only those...
