There are ways to block and circumvent that too. Ive once ran an emiliorated setup but that had its own problems.

You clould analyze all your internet packages and whitelist only the data you explicitly chose to send to the net. But i have to admit i am unlikely to go so far, i have actually loosened my privacy focus quite alot since i am simping for the copilot ai powertools. There almost dreamlike in what they can mean for my job and i want to be ahead of the curve in learning how to use em which means enabling insider previews and such. I even regularly use bing now even if its classic search is still crap. I though i was done with chromium before.

I guess its a good thing my main system is now linux and windows is just a backup and job os. Whatever data is left they can have it.