The dark defaults of Microsoft Edge

• EdgeDeflector

  71 2,780 5.2 NSIS

  Discontinued A tiny helper application to force Windows 10 to use your preferred web browser instead of ignoring the setting to promote Microsoft Edge. Only runs for a microsecond when needed.

There's also the dark bit where changing your default browser in Windows doesn't apply globally.

That is, some UI widgets will still open Edge even if you change the default.

There used to be an awesome open source project called EdgeDeflector that would fix that. Microsoft got wise to it and found a way to neutralize it, which killed the project. https://github.com/da2x/EdgeDeflector

• configuration

  2 6 4.8 PowerShell

  Scripts for automation, machine setup, environment configuration, etc (by lloydjatkinson)

I've been working on automated setup and configuration of Windows for my purposes and for family computers etc.

As part of that I wanted to hide the widgets, the pointless search input, move the start menu back to its normal place instead of the dumb place, hide one drive icon from explorer, etc etc

This is what I have so far: https://github.com/lloydjatkinson/configuration/blob/master/...

I have a version for development machines too which is WIP but you can see what I have so far.

The repo root has a big readme of what it does and does not do.

Tldr: Automate all this tedious tweaking and turning off of crapware features via PowerShell. The end goal is to be able to run a single command from the windows terminal and leave it to do it's thing.

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• Frontpage

  455 48 4.3 PHP

  Dynamic ToS;DR CMS, used in our frontpage

  

There is a website that summarizes terms of services:

https://tosdr.org/

The about page says it started in June 2012, shortly after that techdirt article.

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