<div dir="ltr">I saw this a couple days ago. Not surprising really, sourceforge has felt a bit scummy for a while now, but I first really ran into it when trying to download filezilla, by default you get the "sourceforge download manager application". It didn't give me any adware/malware, but it's very unnerving when the exe you download isn't the program you wanted. <div>I avoid sourceforge these days, and with the number of ads and false download buttons I won't use it unless I can't get a program anywhere else. </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>--</div>Wyatt Zacharias<div><br></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 10:52 AM, Gilles Detillieux <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:grdetil@scrc.umanitoba.ca" target="_blank">grdetil@scrc.umanitoba.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Have any of you heard about SourceForge's recent takeover/highjacking of GIMP for Windows and Nmap? This was a bit of a shocker to me. It seems to be a way of forcing the inclusion of adware in downloads, for popular projects that don't agree to it.<br>
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<a href="https://plus.google.com/+gimp/posts/cxhB1PScFpe" target="_blank">https://plus.google.com/+gimp/posts/cxhB1PScFpe</a> - GIMP<br>
<a href="http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2015/q2/194" target="_blank">http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2015/q2/194</a> - Nmap<br>
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The beginning of the end for a former open source champion? So sad when short-term thinking takes over.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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Univ. of Manitoba Winnipeg, MB R3E 0J9 (Canada)<br>
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