{"repo":"bongochong/CWP-Utilities","free":true,"listed":false,"github":"https://github.com/bongochong/CWP-Utilities","clone":"git clone https://github.com/bongochong/CWP-Utilities.git","description":"Combined Windows Privacy Utilities | Hosts file updater, block list manager, and more. Open source tools for Windows users, to help ensure privacy & security. Block ads, spyware domains, and other malicious activity/traffic, all through a simple interface.","language":"Batchfile","stars":78,"topics":["privacy","security","foss","scripting","automation","windows","gnu","linux","freedom","hosts"],"license":null,"category":"security-tools","readme_excerpt":"Combined Windows Privacy Utilities 2023 brought me some serious challenges and setbacks, due to a significant death in the family, which I am still recovering from. That being said, I have been working on notable additions and optimizations for a new release, which will eventually get pushed to this repo. I'm still actively maintaining this software, but if you truly can't wait for the improvements that are on the backburner while this project is in maintenance mode, I encourage you to install Cygwin and try out the Cygwin port of my command line block list utilities. Are you tired of ads and trackers affecting your web browsing and eating up bandwidth? Do you want to use file sharing applications in a safer way, with less risk of being snooped on? Do you want to take preemptive measures against spyware? Or, would you simply like to have an easier way of keeping your hosts file and torrent client block lists thorough and up-to-date on Windows? You've come to the right place if you answered yes to any of those questions. Combined Windows Privacy Utilities (or CWP Utilities) is a free and open source suite of integrated tools for Windows users, to help them guard their privacy and security. It does this through drastically simplifying the work of parsing and structuring data from a number of different trustworthy block lists, then combining them into single, usable files, and putting them in their proper locations. A simple installer is provided, to make everything easily acces","default_branch":null,"files":null,"tree":[],"storefront":"/r/bongochong","claimed":false,"request_supported":{"post":"https://gitbuyer.com/r/bongochong/CWP-Utilities/request-supported","requests":0},"note":"indexed from public GitHub; nothing is for sale on this page. Clone it from GitHub. Paid listings live at /search."}