Life & fun · February 28, 2025
Spybot Anti-Beacon
Anti-Telemetry, Anti-Tracking
Spybot Anti-Beacon launched on February 28, 2025 with 11 votes, #1,584 of 5,999 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 1 year on.
What it does
Stop Windows, your browser, your anti-virus, your office software, your games... to phone home. Telemetry collects detailed user data often without clear consent, posing significant privacy risks.
Safer-Networking Ltd.
Our payment provider 2Checkout currently has outages. If you want to buy Spybot, please let us know through our contact form , and we will inform you once it is back. Telemetry collects detailed user data often without clear consent, posing significant privacy risks. This data can be used for profiling, shared with third parties, and, if breached, can expose sensitive information. Companies often lack transparency about what telemetry they collect and how it’s used, making it difficult for users to manage their privacy. Windows itself is well known for a wide range of telemetry, but your favorite browser and your preferred antivirus probably use this as well, as do a growing range of other…from safer-networking.org
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