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by dylanhhh
25 Jun 2020, 03:02
Forum: Help
Topic: Stop Checking For Updates?
Replies: 12
Views: 4992

Re: Stop Checking For Updates?

The "__cfduid" is automatically set by Cloudflare and unrelated to FreeFileSync. Other than that, the update checks serve to provide some general info (read: non-personal) about the recent hardware and os that FFS is used on in order to make informed decisions regarding what systems to su...
by dylanhhh
23 Jun 2020, 22:06
Forum: Help
Topic: Stop Checking For Updates?
Replies: 12
Views: 4992

Re: Stop Checking For Updates?

Note: This post has been edited in response to the response from the creator of FFS. I speculated that they may be tracking "people's usage", with a unique ID. That's not correct. Here's a hack: Use the Windows firewall to block outgoing TCP/80 connections from the program. (P.S. I just no...