@efi No. Absolutely not. Another aspect next to the possibility of malware due to it being open source software is of course the legality of such scripts which are either a legal gray area or entirely outlawed. The sad reality is, however, that it's incredibly complicated for Microsoft to monitor illegitimate versions of their own software, it's next to impossible for them to detect whether you're running such an illegal version of their software!

Very often these poor billion dollar corporations are left without money for their software whilst criminals using such scripts get away with it! I cannot advise against this software more than enough.

@0x4d696b75 Thank you for sharing so I can avoid it and put it on my blocklist.

Next to that horrid page run by criminals there is also this script for debloating actively running Windows installations, even legitimate through which vital and necessary functions built into Windows by Microsoft with the user's interest in mind, such as Cortana, Microsoft Edge with Bing as the default search engine, and the pre-installed games every Windows user plays on a daily basis such as Candy Crush, are REMOVED! MANY USERS RUNNING THIS WON'T EVEN KNOW THE CONSEQUENCES such as improving performance and having more free disk space.

Horrible and quite frankly irresponsible for people to make that script and put it out there for free.

GitHub - Sycnex/Windows10Debloater: Script to remove Windows 10 bloatware.

Script to remove Windows 10 bloatware. Contribute to Sycnex/Windows10Debloater development by creating an account on GitHub.

^GitHub

I am going to do this terrible and dangerous thing. Hopefully I have interpreted all of the sarcasm correctly. If my computer stops working that means I have interpreted wrongly.

Living on the edge here.

@ErikUden @0x4d696b75

@ivan123 Please take every word said in this post incredibly seriously. The tiny family business that is the billion dollar corporation Microsoft is losing REAL money if you pirate, illegally download, or activate their software through the aforementioned methods! This will be incredibly damaging to Microsoft's monopoly position and should not be done at any cost!

There are no alternatives Libre Office, OpenOffice, Only Office, JUST NONE?!!

@sneexy big tech is the reason you can access the internet! A non-profit version of online social communication without ads, data harvesting, or algorithms is unthinkable and quite frankly I believe impossible!

Under no circumstances would a non-corporate internet be capable of even existing! We should thank Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Jack Dorsey, Mark Zuckerberg, the founding fathers of our internet!!!

Never take money from corporations. It's theirs, and their monopoly position is necessary to keep the internet running. A people built alternative maintained through collective code contribution in open source platforms is frankly utopian and will never be real or easy to use.

@knightly666 (I'm being serious for a second) This is the only correct way. Even if piracy is so easy, it still makes you, the user, dependent and used to a specific brand of software. From Adobe products to Microsoft's operating system.

https://youtu.be/TPLR9c3IWlI

This is a good video that shows how in many cases Microsoft's and Adobe's products are easy to pirate because it's better for, e.g. Adobe if people use pirated Adobe Software than if a real FOSS alternative and competitor would rise from the ashes.