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The most difficult challenge was to survive constant pressures from crapware for bundling deals. Filezilla and alikes succumbed to that long time ago while VLC

by gesman 11y ago

The most difficult challenge was to survive constant pressures from crapware for bundling deals. Filezilla and alikes succumbed to that long time ago while VLC stand above the crowd. Kudos, hats off and happy birthday!

jbk 11y ago
> The most difficult challenge was to survive constant pressures from crapware for bundling deals. We receive 5 of those offers per week, with VLC. And the amounts proposed are very very tempting.
- na85 11y ago
  >We receive 5 of those offers per week, with VLC. And the amounts proposed are very very tempting. Thank you for not doing it.
- frik 11y ago
  Please keep staying away from it. FileZilla burned them-self, everyone moved to alternatives
  - dagw 11y ago
    everyone moved to alternatives Like? I want to move to an alternative, but nothing reasonably easy to use and deploy on windows comes close FileZilla for performance.
    - bvr22 11y ago
      client-side, you can use WinSCP, free, supports SCP, SFTP and FTP protocols. You can also use any piece of software on your computer to edit remote files, you juste have to configure file extensions in the parameters (like MSWord for .doc/.docx, notepad++ for .txt/.log/whatever, etc)
      - dagw 11y ago
        I use WinSCP when I can and quite like it. The big problems is that for some reason it is so much slower at downloading and especially uploading files that it really isn't usable in many cases.
    - gesman 11y ago
      Second +WinSCP. The moment FileZilla prostituted itself - it's wiped out of my list of any useful tools immediately and forever.
- pjc50 11y ago
  The message I'm getting here is that we the users should probably send you more money.
- moonshinefe 11y ago
  Also wanted to say thank you for not doing it. Filezilla and Sourceforge both completely lost me as a user instantly by trying to pull that crap.
- zerr 11y ago
  Are all of those really crapware? Maybe you can hand-pick some useful utilities and bundle with default unchecked (checkbox) install option?
  - joosters 11y ago
    What useful utilities have you seen bundled with anything, then?
    - zerr 11y ago
      I've seen freeware antivirus bundled (McAfee, Avast). Can be useful for some people.
- illbert 11y ago
  Thank you for not doing it, have my donation instead! cheers for a great piece of software I use and love since probably around 12 years :)!
- slipstream- 11y ago
  Would be nice to see the text of those offers, like the way the rpi foundation released the text of the offer they got (I've started to investigate the PUP ecosystem, and now said ecosystem includes the shittiest Indian winlockers and fakealert trojans, designed to get less knowledgeable user to call fake tech support)
  - jbk 11y ago
    mail me and I can send some of those.

by gesman 11y ago

jbk 11y ago

> The most difficult challenge was to survive constant pressures from crapware for bundling deals. We receive 5 of those offers per week, with VLC. And the amounts proposed are very very tempting.

na85 11y ago
>We receive 5 of those offers per week, with VLC. And the amounts proposed are very very tempting. Thank you for not doing it.
frik 11y ago
Please keep staying away from it. FileZilla burned them-self, everyone moved to alternatives
- dagw 11y ago
  everyone moved to alternatives Like? I want to move to an alternative, but nothing reasonably easy to use and deploy on windows comes close FileZilla for performance.
  - bvr22 11y ago
    client-side, you can use WinSCP, free, supports SCP, SFTP and FTP protocols. You can also use any piece of software on your computer to edit remote files, you juste have to configure file extensions in the parameters (like MSWord for .doc/.docx, notepad++ for .txt/.log/whatever, etc)
    - dagw 11y ago
      I use WinSCP when I can and quite like it. The big problems is that for some reason it is so much slower at downloading and especially uploading files that it really isn't usable in many cases.
  - gesman 11y ago
    Second +WinSCP. The moment FileZilla prostituted itself - it's wiped out of my list of any useful tools immediately and forever.
pjc50 11y ago
The message I'm getting here is that we the users should probably send you more money.
moonshinefe 11y ago
Also wanted to say thank you for not doing it. Filezilla and Sourceforge both completely lost me as a user instantly by trying to pull that crap.
zerr 11y ago
Are all of those really crapware? Maybe you can hand-pick some useful utilities and bundle with default unchecked (checkbox) install option?
- joosters 11y ago
  What useful utilities have you seen bundled with anything, then?
  - zerr 11y ago
    I've seen freeware antivirus bundled (McAfee, Avast). Can be useful for some people.
illbert 11y ago
Thank you for not doing it, have my donation instead! cheers for a great piece of software I use and love since probably around 12 years :)!
slipstream- 11y ago
Would be nice to see the text of those offers, like the way the rpi foundation released the text of the offer they got (I've started to investigate the PUP ecosystem, and now said ecosystem includes the shittiest Indian winlockers and fakealert trojans, designed to get less knowledgeable user to call fake tech support)
- jbk 11y ago
  mail me and I can send some of those.