This is a good start, I'm pleased to see Sourceforge responding in a fairly positive manner.
SourceForge responds to GIMP grump with crowdsourcing caper
A week after the developers of popular graphics-wrangling app the GIMP bailed from SourceForge rather than endure the many odd ads it encourages, the site has responded with a scheme that makes its users the arbiters of acceptable ads. The new policy emerged in a blog post announcing a new email address the site will use to …
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Friday 15th November 2013 07:46 GMT Dodel
Good on 'em, it seems more and more apps are coming bundled with toolbars and such nasties, I can't help wonder that half (Ok maybe not half), of the security issues users suffer are down to these toolbars.
Users blindly clicking through, next, next, next ... and given the ones where you have to tick the box to confirm you do NOT wish to install said tooldbars.
Now if only the likes of M$, take note.....
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Friday 15th November 2013 12:44 GMT Amorous Cowherder
Don't they? Run a FOSS software install on Windows and it's like a English Language and Lateral thinking test!
"Do you agree, by the nature of not ticking boxes, below to agree, to not comply with the agreement that we can install toolbar and/or/if collect your details, not to in anyway supercede previous agreements, that may or may not allow installation and collection of data within reaches of local law? Tick box y/n"
Ermmmmm...y..e...s? WRONG! Now we'll share all your usage data and your machine will be riddled with CPU hogging addons!
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Friday 15th November 2013 23:57 GMT galoppini
Re: Developers specifying installers?
Some developers misunderstood the program fearing that SourceForge was bundling open source projects without authors’ consent, which is absolutely NOT the case. Currently in the Pilot phase, we only have 3 projects participating in the DevShare program all of which explicitly opted-in. GIMP has never opted-in and it has not been bundled. Hope this clarifies your doubts. [full disclosure - I do work at SourceForge]
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Friday 15th November 2013 23:58 GMT galoppini
Re: Crowdsourcing common sense?
Unfortunately isn't that easy. For example speaking of Google the adsense page says that, in order to block
ads you have to
Enter the [exact!]display URL shown on the ad or the destination
URL to block new and existing ads.
The problem is that you do not know in advance what kind of ads would be displayed, and having over 300.000 projects we might hardly be able to remove all of them if we do not get help from the community.
[full disclosure - I do work at SourceForge]
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Friday 15th November 2013 16:06 GMT Inachu
sales pitch for metrics on downloads.
Sales pitch for metics on downlods and who downloads them and when how and why.
This is for the web master and not some sleaze bag who wants to install permanent files onto users pc that phone home every time users either use the program or turn on their pc.
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Friday 15th November 2013 21:57 GMT tempemeaty
"...unwanted-add-on-laden installer SourceForge..."
THIS is one of the late new practices for Windows based installers that has now forced me to SLAMMED THE LID SHUT Windows and end all further use of it where I can. The paradigms for that OS have become so damn unacceptably corrupt with these types of practices in to many organizations now. I also should mention another download dot com hit me with that kind of crap and I wanted to reach through the internet and strangle that organization in total(it included hidden installs of crapware with no opt out). It's now not even safe to install trial software for evaluation because of this practice.
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Saturday 16th November 2013 09:54 GMT Sad developer
SourceFuxxx have gone and hung themselves. I support free ware, we host a video 101 series about Git :http://ava.co.uk/git There are no additional downloads. No redirecting my home page to some appalling search engine and my default search engine to same. This was all done before I continued with the install from SourceFuxxx ..... I accept ads in their place but not without my permission and certainly not modifying my machine. Its now on the band list of sites and I'm emailing every freeware provider I use to lobby for alternatives.
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