Do Asuswrt-Merlin users have telemetry concerns to deal with like Netgear users do ?
No Asus-WRT/Merlin does not do this kind of spying on their user - a good reason to switch to Asus, no?Do Asuswrt-Merlin users have telemetry concerns to deal with like Netgear users do ?
nvram set dns_probe_content=0.0.0.0
nvram set dns_probe_host=""
nvram commit
reboot
ASUS firmware (and therefore Merlin) does do regular DNS probes to dns.msftncsi.com (owned by Microsoft). You can disable this by:
From: https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/excessive-requests-for-dns-msftncsi-com/556/6Code:nvram set dns_probe_content=0.0.0.0 nvram set dns_probe_host="" nvram commit reboot
Not that this is really telemetry data
This is used by the firmware to determine if there is an active Internet connection (in the past, they would ping a list of random DNS servers - using the Microsoft DNS that's designed for such a purpose is cleaner and safer). This can also be disabled through the webui under Tools -> Other Settings since 380.66.
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