From my experience, multiple companies have caught on and are doing this.
- NVidia: Block their telemetry, and their driver installer will block, even if you downloaded that massive driver package.
- Microsoft: Block their telemetry and some aspects of XBox One will break, including the Windows-10 streaming of the XBox. I found this to not be consistently true, so I am not sure what is going on behind the scene.
- Occulus Rift: You can't even block this telemetry. It's in the same app flow as the headset. If you block the telemetry to Facebook, the headset won't even work.
I predict that more and more companies will move critical services to the same DNS name or IP that their telemetry are using.
- NVidia: Block their telemetry, and their driver installer will block, even if you downloaded that massive driver package.
- Microsoft: Block their telemetry and some aspects of XBox One will break, including the Windows-10 streaming of the XBox. I found this to not be consistently true, so I am not sure what is going on behind the scene.
- Occulus Rift: You can't even block this telemetry. It's in the same app flow as the headset. If you block the telemetry to Facebook, the headset won't even work.
I predict that more and more companies will move critical services to the same DNS name or IP that their telemetry are using.