Configure programs
- Multiple actionsThis page belongs to a category, containing some changes with similar goal.
- macOS onlyThis script improves your privacy on macOS
- Impact: MinimumSystem Functionality Loss Risk: Low
This action improves privacy with minimal impact when you run the recommended script. - Bash (Shell script)These changes use macOS system commands to update your settings.
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- 2 categories
- Partially reversibleYou can not restore changes done by this script.
Overview
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To harden your data privacy safeguard, this page facilitates: configure programs macOS. Relatedly, this tuning demonstrates how to revert any active modifications.
Individual freedoms are supported by data handling protection in an increasingly connected world. Let's adopt personal privacy handling settings enhanced through control this enhancement provides: find your next way forward. Pay close attention to every detail in the guide. Following it exactly will make everything much smoother.
References
- Leveraging Privacy Profiles to Empower Users in the Digital Society
- Understanding the User Control: The Cornerstone of Online Privacy
- Package Management Requirements
- Operating System Security
- C6: Keep your Components Secure
Technical Details
- The modification here controls user-specific environment configurations to reach secured configuration boundaries and it aims to help to help enhance secure data privacy.
- To be able to reinforce secure privacy safeguard, this action configures sudo controls to accomplish controlled elevation.
- This configuration handles diagnostic reporting settings to help improve sensitive data privacy handling in association with smart data collection filters. In the process of optimized data collection, it helps fine-tune how the system runs.
- To maintain secure data privacy security, this playbook changes user preferences to obtain protected user settings. To accomplish improved account response, this code helps make tasks take less time.
- Toward applying this update delivery settings, this tweak adjusts your system to benefit from managed update reporting to be able to reduce important data privacy integration risks. It aims to help make sharing work easier owing to streamlined update operations.
- This change manages package repositories to help minimize privacy handling risks and this can help to reach validated software delivery. This config can also help keep the system running well, to gain efficient package verification.
- This executable modifies operating system behavior to maintain stricter important privacy enforcement for the purpose of granular security control. As a means of use the hardware better, this helps to realize improved system response.
- The change here orchestrates macOS preference controls to achieve secure configuration and it can also help to help increase cyber privacy security. This would help reducing overhead to be able to make the system handle more work.
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Choose one of two ways to apply:
- Normal
- High
- Maximum
Normal — Functional Privacy
- Recommended for all
- Safe for daily use
- No impact on system stability
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High — Advanced Privacy
- For advanced privacy-conscious users
- May affect some features
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Maximum — Strongest Possible Privacy
- Military-grade privacy protection
- Major system impact
- Consider having Time Machine backup.
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Help
How to apply or restore "Configure programs" using script
- ≈ 3 min to complete
- Tools: Web Browser
- Difficulty: Medium
- ≈ 6 instructions
- 2
Download
Download the script file by clicking on the button above.
Use button above to restore changes. - 3
Keep the file
If warned by your browser, keep the file. - 4
Open
Open the downloaded file. - 5
Exit
Once it's done, press any key to exit the window. - 6
Restart
Restart your computer for all changes to take effect.
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How to apply or restore "Configure programs" using privacy.sexy
- ≈ 3 min to complete
- Tools: privacy.sexy
- Difficulty: Simple
- ≈ 4 instructions
- 2
Choose script
- Search for the category name: Configure programs
- Check the category by clicking on the checkbox of the category.
Applying Normal to limit the impact.
- 3
Run
Click on ▶️ Run button at the bottom of the page.This button only appears on desktop version (recommended). On browser, use 💾 Save button.
Explore This Guide
- 9 Privacy settings
- 1 Main categories
- These settings are organized into 1 main categories for easy navigation.
- Main categories may contain subcategories, further organizing related functionality.
- 2 Total categories
Choose what to protect based on your needs:This script already includes these options.
You can review, apply or reverse each option individually.
Click any option to learn more about what it does.
- Some settings and commands may require technical knowledge to apply correctly.
- Most users find the Normal protection above sufficient.
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