Please add the preset to block Microsoft Edge (Chromium) from sending telemetry

[Alex Vojacek]

The new Edge (Chromium) is trying to connect to browser.events.data.msn.com

Each time I open a new page it tries to connect to that domain and it is slowing everything down to the point of considering removing it.

For now I've blocked this on the hosts file but it would be could if you could implement a block on the Telemetry options to block this domain

browser.events.data.msn.com

There are numerous threads about this, the more recent on Reddit and no solution yet because Microsoft is not saying anything about this.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MicrosoftEdge/comments/iypdy4/48_second_pause_when_browsing_the_first_page_from/

https://mybroadband.co.za/forum/threads/new-edge-browser-phoning-home-to-browser-events-data-msn-com.1107718/

Thank you !!

[Barnacle]

Hi. Thanks for your feedback.

The problem is, that we're not blocking hosts directly and not messing around with the hosts file for several reasons:
1) Security sake, also malware behaviour. And MS doesn't like it too, AFAIK recently they just detect it as malicious if they don't like something in it.
2) Not really trustworthy to block something via hosts. Long time ago they simply hardcoded some stuff in OS to bypass hosts file and counter malware. Blocking hosts on the router is more effective.

So we're using IP blocker (firewalls) instead. But the thing is we're using Third-Party project and relying on it, and unfortunately not managing it ourselves. This means, that you need to contact the author to solve possible issues - DashboardX will be synced with the repo.
https://github.com/crazy-max/WindowsSpyBlocker
Anyway, from what I'm seeing "nslookup browser.events.data.msn.com" giving me "13.88.28.53" address and it's currently in the "Extra ruleset". If applied, you can check it yourself in "wf.msc", or just open "DashboardX\Data\Blocker.ini" file.
If "Extra" ruleset is not yet applied, then be aware, that applying it may block some other apps too. The rulesets provided as a three non-divided lists, and we can't determine which ip is for MSN and which one is for Skype for example.

BTW, AFAIK Edge telemetry should be controlled by "Allow telemetry" gp as it stated in the documentation: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/DeployEdge/microsoft-edge-enterprise-privacy-settings#configure-policy-settings
So if you have Enterprise edition, then switching Telemetry gp to "Security" should do the trick too... I hope.

[Alex Vojacek]

Thank you for your prompt reply!. I have everything disabled on telemetry, on Edge and on Telemetry in general, also double chedked on Privacy on Windows. The thing is still trying to access that domain each time I open a site. MS is doing something not docummented with that domain, I can't find it anywhere in the documentation.