For me, that was Freshmeat (Freecode, now, I guess). I guess I never cared about SourceForge as a discovery tool, but it sounds like some folks here used it that way. I now assume all cookies contain nails, and generally avoid cookies. Then one day she started putting nails into her cookies. Imagine if you're grandmother had been baking wonderful cookies for as long as you can remember. The problem (in all of these cases) is that the companies involved had built up a capital of trust (snark on Microsoft as you will, and maybe it's possible to uninstall a bing-bar, I will never know), so people. After Bittorrent bought them, they too inserted damned-near-impossible-to-remove software installations.
#Greenshot sourceforge install
Seriously, who would ever want to install a bing-bar onto their browser? What is the use case? Does any Microsoft employee (other than those testing this shit) have this installed on their computer?Īlso see Utorrent. But just today I was declining a 'would you like to install a bing-bar' dialog box that Microsoft shittily inserted into some dependency of theirs (opt out, always, this shitty shit, not opt-in). Now, it's not only Sourceforge that does this.
And if you accidentally accept the offers, how easy are the third-party offers to remove from your system? If the answer is "not very" (yeah, that'll pretty much be the case here), then you are a malware distributor. "Mirrored projects are sometimes used to deliver easy-to-decline third-party offers, and the original downloads are always available."Įasy to decline.