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privacy.sexy
Discover privacy.sexy, the privacy tool to maximize your privacy and security on Windows, macOS, and Linux. Easily use best practices to prevent tracking and make your life secure and private — because privacy is sexy.

It’s a tool to maximize privacy and security settings on Windows, macOS, and Linux. Learned about it from Naomi Brockwell.

  • emotional_soup_88English
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    9 days ago

    I only recommend using such tools if you are on Windows. Since Windows is a proprietary, closed source system, I assume that it is spyware by default. Short of regularly inspecting what processes are running and what the internet traffic looks like (source, destination, content etc), I cannot know what is going on under the hood. With Linux, you do know what’s “going on” and what you sign up for and there isn’t one system behavior, one configuration that you cannot tweak to your needs. I have no experience with MacOS is, no comment on that.

    With that said, when I was on Windows, I used to use these tools:

    https://www.bleachbit.org/ => to remove .log files and some other stuff[1]

    https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil => to disable telemetry and some other stuff

    1. Fair warning! While it does run natively on Linux, I don’t recommend it. For the same reason that I don’t need to worry about Linux being spyware, the files that do exist on a Linux system are mostly there for a reason. Removing some files that BleachBit removes by default can introduce bugs, albeit not fatal. ↩︎