[daniel1212]

folks have tried that approach, so you could google it and see how it’s going. Some were claiming MS was bypassing the etc/hosts file with hard-coded IPs, so the only means possible to thwart phoning home was to use router features to block the MS IPs.

Well, there is this,Download Destroy Windows 10 Spying - MajorGeeks though i do not try it, and do not want to do all that this does myself:

[catnipman]

that tool is a host files address blocker and if MS has hard-coded IP addresses into their spyware, then all aspects of DNS resolution are bypassed,including the hosts file.

In fact, the first use comment is:

“It’s useful to remove apps and to do some tweaks, but doesn’t works with hosts blocking, because some domains are hardcoded in the ..\system32\dnsapi.dll”