Heads UP!! Warning: Don’t Download Software From SourceForge If You Can Help It
 

Hi,

From http://www.howtogeek.com/218764/warn...Speed=noscript
Hopefully this will help the LQ Linux Community. At one time I would download from SourceForge but with their attempts to add junkware to the available downloads is a big 'No-NO' to me.

I am not a alarmist but a concerned Gnu/Linux user!
Please think twice about downloading from their site.

I've just read the two links, and it seems that this practice applies to downloads of binaries for Windows and OSX. Has anyone reported it happening to source code for Linux? If not, then panic over.

Thanks onebuck!
I for one stick to the repo - I advise anyone to do the same where possible. I, contary to onebuck, AM paraniod and alarmist. I saw what malware (been using ***dows too long, and that in itself IS malware as it is...) can do, to your system...and your life. I use Manjaro, it has a section called AUR where Manjaro users add their software. A separate user-driven repo, if you will. Well, I even avoid that.
If anything comes in - compiled wise that is - it'll be from the one and only official repo...
Umm, safe from the SL viewer, that only stays in the user space anyway, and does not require system-wide installation... :)
Thor

In many ways, SourceForge has already been superseded by GitHub, and (when "the Suits" take-over GitHub), eventually yet-another site will supersede that.

"The Suits" have figured-out that "the Internet represents A Lot Of Money" ... b-u-t ... the only game that they actually know anything about is: "Broadcast Television." :eek:

Therefore: "while you're in the middle of editing a graphics file for a really-important project, wouldn't you like to stop and watch a 30-second commercial for Adidas? Well then, surely you wouldn't mind ..."

Trouble is, "broadcast television is something that you consume, i.e. passively, not that you use." The Internet actually isn't "digital Cable TeeVee." But, the suits have no concept of that. "Media suits" never gave a damn about the programs anyway: they only produced the TV shows as a reason to put commercials in them.

Likewise: they're happy to "sell advertising," but without knowing whether-or-not that advertising actually does any good. Cleverly, they sell that advertising by pummeling the advertiser with very-easily consumable data ... obscuring the fact that actual customer behavior is not actually on that radar-scope at all. It's more or less the same game played by outdoor billboard advertisers, who simply package-up traffic counter statistics from nearby Interstate highways and try to persuade their clients that every one of those people "just can't wait to buy your mascara."

Wise owners of web-sites were, and are, very quick to sell-out to The Borg these people, as any entrepreneur would be. But the "properties" that they sell, immediately lose value when the entrepreneur (and, the entrepreneurship ...) is gone.

Suits, Borg, the establishment, whatever...same thing...

Member response
 

Hi,

If SourceForge will hook add junkware to any opensource then what makes people think OpenSource Gnu/Linux software will not be a problem? OSX Opensource has be infected with add junkware soon others may be in store for unwarranted add junkware.

Once trust is broken it is hard to get back!

I will not use SourceForge again!

They're no better than the click-bait Google encourages into it's top results when one searches for something like "EatherApe install Debian"* -- even with AdBlock there can be times when Google was bribed into placing malware-ridden criminal sites above the usual free ones.


*Sorry, probably not a real example as I search too often to recall, but if I must I am sure I can find some.

Does anyone know any good alternatives where you can store large distribution iso files for free without any adware or anything?

I would be interested in the answer also but I would also ask that you think about what you are asking. Yes, some people do work for no payment but electricity and connectivity are rarely free so my answer would generally be "no".

Perhaps here, http://iso.linuxquestions.org/ :)

I think non-intrusive ads are ok.

I tend to agree. Sorry, I always feel the need to folloW the money and keep the awareness of what is actually free.

That's what bittorrent is for.

Anyone with personal webspace, or their private domain...it only takes a little push :)

We have it as an alternative but some people are afraid of using bittorent due to fearmongering from film/music industry. We'd like to offer a clean direct download aswell.