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This would directly compete with O&O ShutUp10 and Spybot Anti-Beacon — both of which are from established, well-respected companies, and both of which products I believe are FREE. (Neither from Russia, btw — unless you have better info about this than I do . . . )
For more capable Do-It-Yourself-ers who have the interest, there is a detailed online tutorial authored by an IT Manager that addresses most of these issues, found at: http://www.flashq.de/win10-stop-updates.html
OTOH, I read one article stating that several of the Win-10 functions ignore measures like the Hosts file, and that you may only be able to exercise certain controls within *Enterprise* level Win-10. I intend to research that further at places like Wilders Security Forums.
Some sources claim that even the better counter-measures out there would just cripple the OS if implemented, though I suspect that to be MS scare propaganda. However, I would definitely recommend making a good boot partition image **first** — using Acronis TI, Macrium Reflect, Shadow Protect (now called StorageCraft), Norton GHOST, or whichever imager you favor — rather than simply relying on a Windows Restore Point. Better safe than sorry.
It is perhaps less well-known that MS did what it could to back-migrate some of that data-mining and privacy-invading behavior to Win 7 and 8, which may depend upon which MS updates you incautiously accepted, or declined. Most users did not bother vetting these things.