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by neomech 4037 days ago
I moved my project to github after one of their "enticing" offers installed a vpn client that redirected all my traffic and inserted ads into my browsing, when I installed filezilla. The installer they add is designed to make it very easy to install their "offers"without your realising it. I'm very wary of any code on sf now.
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The Filezilla team also deserve some credit in that case, as they opted-in to the ads on purpose (the Filezilla team gets kickbacks from each adware install).