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Re:FileZilla now contains adware if you download from the of... by buffet_overflow on Saturday March 27, 2021 @12:13PM (#26603337)
We've had to ban the application entirely from our work machines. At least when we went through review, even the "clean" versions packaged things that tripped our antivirus software, and at that point, we as an organization decided to stop trusting the author entirely.

There's quite a lot of forum posts where the author defends this practice, so we don't see this reversing any time soon.

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Re:FileZilla now contains adware if you download from the of... by m-p-3 on Saturday March 27, 2021 @12:39PM (#26603541)
We packaged it ourselves and made it available as an SCCM bundle, since users don't have admin rights on their systems anyway.
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Re:FileZilla now contains adware if you download from the of... by tgsovlerkhgsel on Saturday March 27, 2021 @12:25PM (#26603428)
I'm surprised nobody made a forked commercial version yet.

Remove the adware, replace the logo, sell commercial licenses.

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Re:FileZilla now contains adware if you download from the of... by m-p-3 on Saturday March 27, 2021 @12:44PM (#26603581)
There's FileZilla Pro.

https://filezillapro.com/

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Re:FileZilla now contains adware if you download from the of... by randerson on Saturday March 27, 2021 @01:09PM (#26603708)
As someone who is happy to pay for good software, I can't ever see myself buying a paid version of something (no matter how good it might be) if the author has a history of using dark patterns and showing their apparent contempt for their users with the "free" edition. I'd be constantly wondering what other traps might be lurking in there.
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Re:FileZilla now contains adware if you download from the of... by Brian_K_White on Saturday March 27, 2021 @01:23PM (#26603804)
Right. The fact that you can get around something, or that someone failed to do something to you is not the important thing. What matters far more is the fact that they tried and wanted to.
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