Oof, yeah, those vibes are rancid. The website is covered in shady looking links and they want you to download an exe, which you don't need for a simple registry edit which can be done with a text file.

This link shows you how to make the .reg file: https://www.windowscentral.com/how-take-ownership-files-using-right-click-context-menu-windows-10

For my money that's way easier than doing it manually through the registry editor yourself, and you can inspect the code to see what it's doing.

If you want to see the manual steps to take ownership without the registry entry, it looks like this: https://www.windowscentral.com/how-take-ownership-files-and-folders-windows-10

If that isn't a dark pattern then I don't know what is. They do not want you to have control over your machine, at all.

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Preventing users from breaking their machines unless they really work to bypass the defaults is a good thing. It's the same path all major Linux distros have followed by doing things like disabling the root account at install. The entire ethos of distros like NixOS is to not be able change your own OS unless you actively go out of your way.

The important part is that you can change it.