...or maybe it's better to have simple ads supporting a straightforward code hosting site rather than allowing your code to be ingested into some AI model, or whatever other hidden uses, and used against your will by Microsoft?

GitLab is open source and has no ads. It's relatively popular, you can learn more about it [here](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com)

Not all projects have the resources to self host GitLab CE. Actually compute resources may not be much, but keeping it up to date with security patches can be burdensome.

Dunno why you got downvoted. Some FOSS projects have zero server resources, and GitLab updates are... well... let's just say I had to turn off automatic updates for our instance at work because of how frequently they broke it, meaning I have to manually update it every few weeks.

gitlab.com has no ads either, and does not require hosting GitLab CE.

The parent comment explicitly said "open source", which only CE qualifies as.

But yeah GitLab.com is a great source available host/forge. I use it for my projects :).

you know sourceforge has inserted adware into downloads before, right?

To be fair, that was under different ownership. One of the first things the new owners did after the acquisition was to stop that practice.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/4n3e1s/the_state_...

Imho their reputation is burned. People don’t pay attention to ownership changes or the fact that they stopped that practice (especially since they haven’t redesigned the site much, still looks and feels like the old crap).

> People don’t pay attention to ownership changes

I paid attention when MSFT bought Github.

OT: Why is every company's response to "deceptive ads that sneak in via programmatic ad exchanges" (AKA: every ad ever) to review some subset of them, after they're already displaying them, instead of ads requiring approval before they are ever displayed like they should?

Because that's not as profitable.