[AdmiralAsshat]

They seem to be doing everything that was asked of them at the height of the sleazy days:

- They removed all bundled adware

- They scan the hosted packages for adware bundled by the developer and warn accordingly

- They removed deceptive download buttons

This is really very good news, and I'm willing to give them another shot. To quote from later in the Reddit thread:

It brought in quite a lot of revenue, but obviously that strategy is not sustainable and SourceForge was/would have been a sinking ship. The previous owners were a publicly traded large corporation and SourceForge was not a core part of their business. We are a lean web company with talented developers that has the ability to do things more efficiently. The site is monetized via advertising, but we believe it can be profitable and sustainable without throwing users and developers under the bus. At over a million unique visitors per day, we don't think we need to trick people into clicking on ads in order to turn a sustainable profit.

That had me nodding my head in understanding at "publicly traded corporation." I get it. I work for one. They will throw their workers, their customers, and their business into a meat grinder without batting an eyelash if it means being able to add a couple more cents to their shareholders' dividends.

[digi_owl]

> publicly traded large corporation

These seem to be no end of trouble when it comes to abusing all trust in an attempt at increasing short term profits.