#privacy

Remove the Copilot AI button and app from Windows 11 using Microsoft's official TurnOffWindowsCopilot policy.

Encrypt your DNS lookups with a DoH server so your ISP cannot easily see which sites you visit.

Stop Start menu searches from sending your queries to Bing and showing web results.

Turn off the Xbox Game Bar overlay and its background game recording on Windows 10/11.

Redirect a domain to 127.0.0.1 so no browser on this machine can open it.

The forgotten one-liner for password-protecting a single file without creating a zip archive: GnuPG's symmetric mode is built into every distro.

How to wipe Windows event logs (Application, System, Security and more) from the command line using wevtutil.

Clear mistakenly denied camera, microphone, or automation permissions so macOS asks again.

Wipe the current session's history and the saved history file.

Make sensitive files readable only by you, and scripts executable, using octal permission modes.

Delete the shortcut files that power Quick Access's Recent files, jump lists, and Office's recent-documents list in one command.

tccutil resets the TCC privacy database entries — the fix for apps that can no longer ask for camera, microphone, or screen-recording consent.