Disable it in system settings, browser settings, and prevent access through something like firejail. It is not as reliable as a hardware kill-off switch, but puts a lot of barriers to overcome.
That’s like trying to disable all those similar things in Firefox. But you can’t really, not unless you stop updating it, because you’ll miss something at some point. And that’s not even an ‘evil corp’ we’re talking here.
You actually can’t turn it off, and they still refuse to publish the complete list of what is collected. You need an enterprise version to disable as much as they will let you, and even then, they still force quite a bit of collection.
To keep it from grinding your hard drives scanning for viruses (obstnsibly to protect you, but really o protect them from clickfraud) you have to use administrator privileges to blackhole one of its folders. There is no option to turn it off. It will grind your media and backup drives every week, shortening their life.
"And in latest versions option to disable was removed"
Nope, wrong way round. After the - er - strong reaction to the original appearance of the Amazon feature, later versions had a kill switch under Privacy. It was always possible simply to uninstall the appropriate package.
Worst part is it keeps running in the background hogging memory and cpu even when completely disabled. I've tried gpedit, shutup10 and so many other tools to get rid of it but somehow it comes back every time :/
There are several layers to "turning it off". You can use Personalization -> Taskbar to turn off the "Widgets" icon which takes care of the immediate problem.
But widgets.exe will continue running in the background, and the only way I found to get rid of that is winget uninstall "Windows Web Experience Pack"
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