Privacy tools for Windows 10

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on /r/privacy

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  • DisableWinTracking

    Uses some known methods that attempt to minimize tracking in Windows 10 (by bitlog2)

  • privacy.sexy

    Open-source tool to enforce privacy & security best-practices on Windows, macOS and Linux, because privacy is sexy

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  • Phant0m

    Discontinued Windows Event Log Killer

  • debotnet

    Discontinued 🔥🚀 Debotnet is a tiny portable tool for controlling Windows 10's many privacy-related settings and keep your personal data private.

  • Win10BloatRemover

    Configurable CLI tool to easily and aggressively debloat and tweak Windows 10 by removing preinstalled UWP apps, services and more. Originally based on the W10 de-botnet guide made by @adolfintel.

  • Windows10-Privacy

    Discontinued Windows 10 Privacy Guide

  • Sophia-Script-for-Windows

    :zap: The most powerful PowerShell module on GitHub for fine-tuning Windows 10 & Windows 11

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  • priv10

    Privacy tool for windows with a built in firewall

  • Debloat-Windows-10

    A Collection of Scripts Which Disable / Remove Windows 10 Features and Apps

  • Windows10Debloater

    Discontinued Script to remove Windows 10 bloatware.

  • Destroy-Windows-10-Spying

    Discontinued !!!UNMAINTAINED!!! Destroy Windows Spying tool

  • sharpapp

    Discontinued 💩⭐️🚀A #app with cutting edge technology to #minimize windows-10 telemetry and #maximize privacy plus many more

  • privatezilla

    👀👮🐢🔥Performs a privacy & security check of Windows 10

    https://github.com/builtbybel/privatezilla is good. There's also ThisIsWin11 by the same dev for Windows 11.

  • Windows11_Hardening

    a collection about Windows 11

    If you are fine with configuring your OS manually by following documentations, give https://github.com/beerisgood/Windows11_Hardening a try - works for Windows 10 too.

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NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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