I don’t think you need to do anything but drop the project altogether. Find shelter from spies? How about a Microsoft app?! Really?
Long ago I used Revo Uninstaller on my Win 10 systems to purge them from most all of the Store garbage and have winstore.app.exe and storeexperiencehost.exe blocked in my firewall.
Economic Celeron systems, predominantly laptops, running in S mode are the only beneficiaries of Store apps. Those systems typically run 4GB RAM and 64GB eMMC storage.
Cheers.
Yes, I used to agree with you 100%. However recently there was an open source app I needed and I was surprised they had a Microsoft Store option. I downloaded it and found that it didn’t even require me to have a Microsoft account of any kind and the install just worked. It was surprising!
But I do think one argument for NEVER using the Microsoft store is that it takes away from the open nature of computers and the Internet. If PCs are someday stuck using some kind of iOS/Android style app store with never ending rules, then we will all suffer…
Sorry. My bias shows. I realize you’re a business and developing a Windows app opens up a highly establish customer base. Keep at it.
None of my Win10 PCs use a Microsoft account, taking advantage of the bypass option presented during the install, unlike the Win11 OOBE\BYPASSNRO trick among others.
Yep. Google Android and Apple iOS are for surveillance capitalism devices know as “phones” by the brainwashed. Controlled by those two globalist entities, Google is run by neo-marxists and Apple by crony plutocrats. Both SoC’s are the most unstable and exploitable operating systems in digital history and at the mercy of a planet full of bad actors. That one’s “phone” is just one among billions is one’s only “protection.”
One might include Microsoft in either (or both) categories, but one can get under the hood with the admin account to adjust security properties while assigning the user account(s) various levels of access. While I have no hands-on with Win11, I’ve gathered that it is not as lenient for the Home and Pro versions available to us plebs.
Happy New Year and much success to SpyShelter in the coming 2nd quarter of the 21st Century!
Happy New Year!
Yeah, any monopoly on tech is always bad in my opinion and the more control as users we can get back the better! Hopefully things improve in 2025!!!
Preface: I’m not going to switch it out of S mode. The laptop is the ASUS E410KA-PM464 (Best Buy SKU:6587794).
Well, I think I changed my mind about SpyShelter as a Microsoft Store app…
I set up a $120 (!) laptop for long-time acquaintance on a severely frugal retirement budget (recently made the final payment on her mobile home mortgage).
Running Windows 11 S Mode and with 75 Mbps Wi-Fi from the community mobile home park access point, I was really surprised how well the thing worked on 4 GB RAM and a 64 GB eMCC drive. Going on about six weeks now and not one complaint from the user. Being retired myself from 30 years in IT, that’s rare!
The only downside is the 19 VDC AC power/charger brickette versus a 30 watt USB C port wall wort.
I maxed out privacy tweaks, set CloudFlare DoH and added the AdGuard extension, well tweaked, in the Edge browser which will take care of 99.9% of everything she will do for email, paying bills, banking, insurance, etc.
Quad9 w/ECS used for system DNS (9.9.911 & 149.112.112.11), not comfortable with system DoH just yet.
Now I wonder how SpyShelter was doing with a MS Store release? And if it might run in S mode??
Cheers.
We are still considering putting SpyShelter in the MS Store. The issue is that they don’t allow us to update the app outside the store, so we’re deciding how that might work.