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Re:Why GitHub Won by naniwaduni on Monday September 09, 2024 @01:15PM (#41490849)
They had a bad name for the download pages being ad-infested even before they bundled the malware in the installers.

(And yes, fake download buttons on a site serving binary downloads went exactly where you'd expect.)

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Re:Why GitHub Won by BSDobelix on Monday September 09, 2024 @02:04PM (#41491462)
>fake download buttons

Yes and today Ad-Sense (Google) took the Crown from being then biggest Scam AD's deploy-er.

And really i don't think that's true before they where sold, ad's sure, scam/malware stuff? I don't think so...at least i cant remember.

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