# privacy.sexy — Privacy is sexy

> Enforce privacy & security best-practices on Windows, macOS and Linux, because privacy is sexy.

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## Get started

- 🌍️ **Online**: [https://privacy.sexy](https://privacy.sexy).
- 🖥️ **Offline**: Download directly for: [Windows](https://github.com/undergroundwires/privacy.sexy/releases/download/0.13.3/privacy.sexy-Setup-0.13.3.exe), [macOS](https://github.com/undergroundwires/privacy.sexy/releases/download/0.13.3/privacy.sexy-0.13.3.dmg), [Linux](https://github.com/undergroundwires/privacy.sexy/releases/download/0.13.3/privacy.sexy-0.13.3.AppImage). For more options, see [here](#additional-install-options).

See also:

- [Desktop vs. Web Features](./docs/desktop/desktop-vs-web-features.md): Differences and unique aspects of desktop and web versions.
- [System Requirements](./docs/desktop/system-requirements.md): Hardware and software requirements for the desktop version.

💡 Regularly applying your configuration with privacy.sexy is recommended, especially after each new release and major operating system updates. Each version updates scripts to enhance stability, privacy, and security.

[![privacy.sexy application](img/screenshot.png?raw=true )](https://privacy.sexy)

## Features

- **Rich**: Hundreds of scripts that aims to give you control of your data.
- **Free**: Both free as in "beer" and free as in "speech".
- **Transparent**. Have full visibility into what the tweaks do as you enable them.
- **Reversible**. Revert if something feels wrong.
- **Accessible**. No need to run any compiled software on your computer with web version.
- **Secure**: Security is a top priority at privacy.sexy with [comprehensive safeguards](./SECURITY.md#security-practices) in place.
- **Open**. What you see as code in this repository is what you get. The application itself, its infrastructure and deployments are open-source and automated thanks to [bump-everywhere](https://github.com/undergroundwires/bump-everywhere).
- **Tested**. A lot of tests. Automated and manual. Community-testing and verification. Stability improvements comes before new features.
- **Extensible**. Effortlessly [extend scripts](./CONTRIBUTING.md#extend-scripts) with a custom designed [templating language](./docs/templating.md).
- **Portable and simple**. Every script is independently executable without cross-dependencies.

## Support

**Sponsor 💕**. Consider sponsoring on [GitHub Sponsors](https://github.com/sponsors/undergroundwires), or you can donate using [other ways such as crypto or a coffee](https://undergroundwires.dev/donate).

**Star 🤩**. Feel free to give it a star ⭐ .

**Contribute 👷**. Contributions of any type are welcome. See [CONTRIBUTING.md](./CONTRIBUTING.md) as the starting point. It includes useful information like [how to add new scripts](./CONTRIBUTING.md#extend-scripts).

## Additional Install Options

- Check the [releases page](https://github.com/undergroundwires/privacy.sexy/releases) for all available versions.
- Other unofficial channels (not maintained by privacy.sexy) for Windows include:
  - [Scoop 🥄](https://scoop.sh/#/apps?q=privacy.sexy&s=2&d=1&o=true) (latest version):

    ```powershell
      scoop bucket add extras
      scoop install privacy.sexy
    ```

  - [winget 🪟](https://winget.run/pkg/undergroundwires/privacy.sexy) (may be outdated):

    ```powershell
      winget install -e --id undergroundwires.privacy.sexy
    ```

    With winget, updates require manual submission; the auto-update feature within privacy.sexy will notify you of new releases post-installation.

## Development

Refer to [development.md](./docs/development.md) for Docker usage and reading more about setting up your development environment.

Check [architecture.md](./docs/architecture.md) for an overview of design and how different parts and layers work together. You can refer to [application.md](./docs/application.md) for a closer look at application layer codebase and [presentation.md](./docs/presentation.md) for code related to GUI layer. [collection-files.md](./docs/collection-files.md) explains the YAML files that are the core of the application and [templating.md](./docs/templating.md) documents how to use templating language in those files. In [ci-cd.md](./docs/ci-cd.md), you can read more about the pipelines that automates maintenance tasks and ensures you get what see.

[docs/](./docs/) folder includes all other documentation.

## Security

Security is a top priority at privacy.sexy.
An extensive commitment to security verification ensures this priority.
For any security concerns or vulnerabilities, please consult the [Security Policy](./SECURITY.md).