If you want to know more best practices for protecting your privacy, as well as alternative applications (say email) that respect privacy there is a compilation: https://www.privacytools.io/
It also has recommendations on VPN’s and such. A common recommendation is to use linux instead of windows, but if you find this to be very inconvenient there are many settings in windows 10 that can be changed to disable telemetry (such as blocking in firewalls), these are gathered into one place by the application: https://www.winprivacy.de/english-home/
If you want to know more best practices for protecting your privacy, as well as alternative applications (say email) that respect privacy there is a compilation: https://www.privacytools.io/
It also has recommendations on VPN’s and such. A common recommendation is to use linux instead of windows, but if you find this to be very inconvenient there are many settings in windows 10 that can be changed to disable telemetry (such as blocking in firewalls), these are gathered into one place by the application: https://www.winprivacy.de/english-home/