Installing a new operating system on your PC can allow you to start from scratch. But every new installation also brings with it some unwanted junk, from bundled software you don’t need to annoying features that invade your privacy. This is true for Windows, for Mac, and even for Linux. The website Privacy.Sexy It helps with these problems by allowing you to perform hundreds of common privacy, security, and user interface tweaks at once. Simply browse the collection of scripts, check the ones you want, and then run them all.
Now, it’s generally not a good idea to run random scripts you find online, so it’s healthy to be skeptical about a project like this. That said, Pivacy.Sexy is a completely open source project that combines all sorts of community-approved operational tweaks into one simple tool. You can stick your head in the Ghithub Page and you will see an active community contributing to this project. You will also find extensive documentation describing how each of the scripts works. Decide for yourself if you trust this tool after checking out all that background information.
That said, there are two ways to use Privacy.Sexy: as a desktop app, which is generally easier to use, or as a web version. The main difference is that the desktop version can run the script for you, while the web version requires you to download the script and run it yourself.
Getting started with either version is straightforward: Just explore the app and find the tweaks you want to make. Some are easy to understand. For example, there are options that will remove things like Microsoft OneDrive, Microsoft Copilot, and the “Meet Now” icon from the Windows taskbar—things that come preinstalled in Windows and are annoying at best and bloatware at worst. Other scripts are a bit more esoteric, at least for the novice user. They do things like prevent telemetry—that is, they stop apps from monitoring you and logging things like your IP address or even your location. I recommend checking only the options that do something you understand. But you’re not flying on your wits alone—you can hover over the information icon that appears to the right of most entries to read a summary of what the feature does.
