Postby Mongrel » Wed Apr 01, 2015 12:59 am
I love that even supposedly reputable utility sites are going full-on reprehensible in some cases.
I went to grab the latest copy of Filezilla, and got it straight from the actual site, filezilla-project.org - only it still forces a Sourceforge download. Now sourceforge always makes my skin crawl nowadays - they getting to be SUPER sketchy and I already avoid them at all costs if I can, but there were no other options provided. Anyway, even after opt-outing of the usual crap (search provider changes, add-ons, etc.) though a manual installation, it still installed fucking bundled software (some weather widget which was harmless and easy to remove, but really, fuck off) without warning, consent, or notification.
I went back to the original Filezilla site, thinking "Oh I bet I was just stupid - I bet there's a hidden spot after all where you can just download the utility without it going through Sourceforge's bullshit. It's probably buried on a dev page or something." but nope, the only way to get FZ outside of something like oldversion.com is the forced redirect to Sourceforge.