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AFAIK this practice (and not on the FileZilla project alone) is why uBlock Origin is blocking SourceForge.
Though ublock origin can use it, it's the ublock badware risks filter list which is blocking sourceforge : https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Badware-risks
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Isn't this what Google Groups is used for? (what's different / lacking there? I'm of the age where I remember SourceForge as somewhere I would sometimes download things from as a young teenager but nothing more than that)
Yes, Google Groups is very close to what's needed - unfortunately, it's proprietary and Google doesn't really maintain it, it's only a matter of time it goes the way of Reader.
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Isn't this what Google Groups is used for? (what's different / lacking there? I'm of the age where I remember SourceForge as somewhere I would sometimes download things from as a young teenager but nothing more than that)
Yes, Google Groups is very close to what's needed - unfortunately, it's proprietary and Google doesn't really maintain it, it's only a matter of time it goes the way of Reader.
Something came up last time Sourceforge was discussed here, namely "why are projects still using it?"... I'm the project lead for LXQt ( http://lxqt.org ). We inherited some infrastructure legacy from LXDE, which was hosted on sourceforge. Today, we have moved most of the legacy to Github but we're still using Sourceforge's mailing list system. We're moving to a self-hosted mailman3 instance but it's been excruciatin…
D has the best mailing list interface in the world by an enormous margin . http://forum.dlang.org/ (The forum is a front-end to the mailing lists / newsgroups.)
Instead, it's all either slow, slow backend frameworks like Ruby, or even worse, these SPA applications that require extensive client-side JS processing before they show you the goods.
Node is a step in the right direction for both problems: for the first, Node-based backend applications are faster than Ruby and Python, and for the client-side rendering problem, because Node can pre-render these SPA apps (which everyone should do for a serious production app that uses a framework/library like AngularJS or React for major client-side rendering).
But a server application based on D or Rust, or even Go, is an even better solution to the slow backend framework issue. Unfortunately, no one has yet created a full-service framework like Rails or Django for any of those languages.
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It's usually hidden in the EULA. Very hidden. It's not just Filezilla or sourceforge doing this. Lenovo do this routinely. They used to bundle something called BrowserGuard, which contains a PUP by Conduit. Conduit have since been partially acquired by another company Perion. I followed that rabbit hole last year, Lenovo point blank refuse to acknowledge it is spyware. And it IS spyware. I created a Perion account to…
Good to know - I was almost ready to consider Lenovo again after Superfish, but no...
The really scary thing is when vendors put in backdoors or trojans like this at a level below the OS (in UEFI, for example).
There is a safer way install FileZilla through ninite installer or chocolately https://ninite.com/filezilla Chocolatey nuget is similar to Linux package managers but for Windows programs https://chocolatey.org choco install filezilla
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Or you type 'ftp' in the command line.
It doesn't come standard, not on all Windows flavours. It's a part of "Core networking utilities" package that used to have some really odd dependencies.
I don't particularly like the built in FTP command line utility (even with scripts). But it has existed a very long time indeed.
Something came up last time Sourceforge was discussed here, namely "why are projects still using it?"... I'm the project lead for LXQt ( http://lxqt.org ). We inherited some infrastructure legacy from LXDE, which was hosted on sourceforge. Today, we have moved most of the legacy to Github but we're still using Sourceforge's mailing list system. We're moving to a self-hosted mailman3 instance but it's been excruciatin…
Why mailing lists are still quite massively popular in 2015?..
IRC is still an underused tool in my opinion. The ability to just talk about one issue in a Mail List and keep track of the communication is great. I can't think of another tool that manages communication as well as a mail list (Forums are just not as good in communication notifications like a mail list.)
P.S. I still hate Mail List and don't use them anymore but nothing does it as well right now.
If you want clean software you must not install directly from Sourceforge.
This has been known about for some time. The Filezilla guys know about it. http://sourceforge.net/blog/devshare-relaunch-power-to-end-u...
Shouldn't this be a criminal offense?
http://www.computerworld.com/article/2909321/8th-grader-char...