I vaguely remember skipping over it because it included malware in the installer. But it looks like that was fixed a few years ago.

Sources so people know I'm not crazy:

https://freefilesync.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5068

https://www.ghacks.net/2018/05/03/freefilesync-10-0/

Once somebody has done something like that I can't trust them again.

I dont see the benefits tbh, as much as people here dislike them, a web interface would be better than its own desktop application in order to manage your homelab backups from different computers.

Also, the "Donation" edition is smelly, just be honest and call it "Pro" version to give consumer rights to the buyer.

It works well for some use cases, I used it when I just had a windows desktop with 4TB acting as NAS, now I have a more mature backup strategy because I have nearly 200TB of disks.

I think because there are even more awesome (opinionated) tools out there... mostly command line.

Like - rsync

- rclone

- restic

- rdedup

- etc.