Setting up a new operating system on your PC gives you a fresh and clean start. But your new installation also comes with some unwanted junk, from unnecessary bundled software to pesky features that invade your privacy. This is true whether you’re using Windows, Mac or Linux. Privacy.Sexy website helps you solve these pain points by allowing you to perform hundreds of common privacy, security and user interface tweaks at once. Just browse our collection of scripts, check the ones you need and run them all.
Now, it’s generally not a good idea to randomly run scripts you find online, so it’s healthy to be skeptical about projects like this. That being said, Pivacy.Sexy is a fully open-source project that combines all kinds of community-validated operational tweaks into one easy tool. If you take a peek at its Ghithub page, you’ll see an active community contributing to this project. You’ll also find detailed documentation explaining what each script does. After going through all this background information, decide for yourself whether you can trust this tool.
That said, there are two ways to use Privacy.Sexy: as a desktop application or using the web version. The desktop application is generally easier to use. The main difference is that the desktop version runs the script automatically, while the web version requires you to download the script and run it yourself.
Getting started with either version is easy. Just explore the application and find the parts you want to tweak. Some are easy to understand. For example, there are options to remove Microsoft OneDrive, Microsoft Copilot, the Meet Now icon on the Windows taskbar, and more. These are pre-installed on Windows and are annoying at best and bloatware at worst. Other scripts are a bit more esoteric, at least for novice users. Some do things like prevent telemetry. That means stopping applications from checking you out and recording your IP address, location, and so on. I recommend checking only the options for features you understand. But don’t just fly by your wits alone. You can hover your mouse over the information icon that appears to the right of most entries to read a brief summary of what they do.
