It's not hard to search for a few keys in the about:config menu or to set a group policy. If you can't be bother to do this you have zero business running random scripts that update your system configuration that you have no idea how it works.

Normie users would be better off reading some detailed step-by-step instructions on how to do it by hand using built-in methods than to run random code from the internet that can be malicious.

My mom is 75 years old and barely knows how to use a web browser to begin with. There is zero chance I encourage her to run random pwsh scripts from the internet.

God forbid we're going to start giving them AI agents to do this kind of stuff for them. God help us.

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tapland 11 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Yes, if someone wrote a guide on how to do it and why, that’d be great.

Knowing where to look and which settings are relevant, for yourself, is a crazy ask of even very computer savvy users.

	▲	lifetimerubyist 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> a crazy ask of even very computer savvy users Why? When Mozilla updated Firefox with the AI chatbot feature the first thing I did was look in settings in how to remove it. When that failed I just googled it, which pointed me to about:config and which keys to look for. Much easier to figure out with your intuition what `browser.ml.chat.enabled` could possibly mean than running pwsh script. All it takes is a bare minimum of curiosity.

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xmprt 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

If you're this paranoid then you can't really trust any piece of software. Many "random" shell scripts that update your system config are more well vetted than 90% of the software you run on your computer daily.

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autoexec 9 hours ago | parent [-]

You should trust software that you can verify yourself as safe, or software written by people who you trust not to abuse the power you're giving them over your device by allowing them to modify it.

Personally, I don't trust most popular software either, but its easy to see why people would be fooled into thinking that software written by a major corporation used by millions of people might be more trustworthy than a script uploaded by a random anonymous person who couldn't be held accountable if their software infested your system with malware.

	▲	xmprt 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I agree. But I'm just surprised that you'd be extremely wary of running a sub 100 line open source script as a one time operation that you can easily audit yourself but on the other hand are likely using a browser that no one in the world (not even the developers) has fully audited.

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joemi 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

There are "detailed step-by-step instructions" linked in the second sentence of the Getting Started section. I'm not sure what more you could want, besides perhaps making it more foolproof against people who can't be bothered to read.