privatezilla
👀👮🐢🔥Performs a privacy & security check of Windows 10 (by builtbybel)
simplewall
Simple tool to configure Windows Filtering Platform (WFP) which can configure network activity on your computer. (by henrypp)
| privatezilla | simplewall | |
|---|---|---|
| 49 | 166 | |
| 3,417 | 2,120 | |
| 0.5% | - | |
| 1.1 | 9.3 | |
| about 1 year ago | almost 3 years ago | |
| C# | C | |
| MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
privatezilla
Posts with mentions or reviews of privatezilla.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-11.
- Anyone using Tiny11 (or otherwise minimised debloated Windows) with a Surface?
- O&OSU10 FOSS Alternative for Windows 11?
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Windows 11: a spyware machine out of users' control
I recently used Privatezilla to disable automatic updates. Not sure if the same approach works on Windows 11, but you might find the relevant registry keys mentioned in the code helpful: https://github.com/builtbybel/privatezilla/blob/master/src/P...
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amirite
Privatezilla = Is an open source alternative to ShutUp 10, but be careful what you enable/disable. It has options that will impede functionality.
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Daily reminder to disable shit you don't want from starting up with your system
PrivateZilla will do all of this for you.
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Making your computer faster
For all the things you might indeed want to do there are about a billion open source programs where you at least have the ability to see what they do. (For example.) Arium is a black box, you have no actual idea what they changed and most people just blindly trust that stuff without verifying (which again you don't actually can't do, at least not completely).
- Windows 11 vs Linux Privacy
- What in the world is windows 11 system doing to use this much battery? 40 Minutes of battery life on a new laptop with updated drivers and no cpu usage but still idles at 50C.
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Privacy tools for Windows 10
https://github.com/builtbybel/privatezilla is good. There's also ThisIsWin11 by the same dev for Windows 11.
- Some doubts regarding MAS windows activation
simplewall
Posts with mentions or reviews of simplewall.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-09.
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PECKER BURST - PING - SERVER issues fix!
EU server list: https://pastebin.com/raw/Sh1VXdTZ - compatibile with simplewall - just update game install path for records (find & replace all)
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Windows users report appearance of unwanted HP app
You could install WPD (https://wpd.app/), use Simplewall (https://github.com/henrypp/simplewall) and a pihole on the network to block a lot, but it's still sad that we need to do this.
Apple alternatives include LuLu (https://github.com/objective-see/LuLu)
- How to remove telemetry completely with one open source simple firewall
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Something went wrong with pin
Edit: Now that I am back on a PC I did find this https://github.com/henrypp/simplewall/issues/1307 Basically same issue I had and how to address it. Figured I post for future readers lol.
- Brute-forcing a macOS user’s real name from a browser using mDNS
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Asian rage cheaters on Europe servers.
Using third party software. Yes. (it is just gui for windows firewall)
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OpenSnitch in Debian ready for prime time
I use OpenSnitch on Linux which is great, and if you are looking for a similar software for Windows I can recommend simplewall.
https://github.com/henrypp/simplewall
- New iCUE v5.1 update
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Any free alternatives to Glasswire? (personal firewall with per-app blocking and bandwidth monitor). •
I'm currently using https://github.com/henrypp/simplewall
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Configuration to allow mobile hotspot on windows 10?
I have been using simplewall for a long time. I love it. But I can not use mobile hotspot for local wireless lan.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing privatezilla and simplewall you can also consider the following projects:
Debloat-Windows-10 - A Collection of Scripts Which Disable / Remove Windows 10 Features and Apps
portmaster - 🏔 Love Freedom - ❌ Block Mass Surveillance
WindowsSpyBlocker - Block spying and tracking on Windows
firewall
DisableWinTracking - Uses some known methods that attempt to minimize tracking in Windows 10
Windows10-Privacy - Windows 10 Privacy Guide
CCStopper - [Archived] Stops Adobe's pesky background apps and more 😉
LittleBigMouse - DPI Aware mouse move across screens
portmaster-packaging - Portmaster packages and installers
WinSlap - Swiftly configure a fresh Windows 10 installation with useful tweaks and privacy settings.
SecureUxTheme - 🎨 A secure boot compatible in-memory UxTheme patcher
privatezilla vs Debloat-Windows-10
simplewall vs portmaster
privatezilla vs WindowsSpyBlocker
simplewall vs firewall
privatezilla vs DisableWinTracking
simplewall vs WindowsSpyBlocker
privatezilla vs Windows10-Privacy
simplewall vs CCStopper
privatezilla vs LittleBigMouse
simplewall vs portmaster-packaging
privatezilla vs WinSlap
simplewall vs SecureUxTheme