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« The connections are for fetching offers and, if the user accepts the offer, the offered file. What the file is for is written in the offer text. The network r

« The connections are for fetching offers and, if the user accepts the offer, the offered file. What the file is for is written in the offer text. The network requests to fetch offers are done only after the user has agreed to it by accepting the privacy policy. » Translation: « Our installer fetches random crapware once you click past the giant wall of text. »

modzu 8y ago
yup, its been going on for years. its 2018. f* filezilla. winscp is a decent alternative
Fnoord 8y ago
This is allowed under GDPR? Doesn't this constitute breaking into computers?
- vsl 8y ago
  Even if it did (but that’s rubish), it would have nothing to do with GDPR - which isn’t your personal magic bullet against anything you might not like.
  - Fnoord 8y ago
    Those two laws are, actually, my personal bullet against virtually everything I don't like happening to my own computer -as well as those owned by others (though that is not within my responsibility)-. I feel like you missed the point though. There's no obvious question to the computer user that this is going to happen; ie. there is no consent. Which is important with regards to GDPR. Next, what happens is the question. Either the security of the computer is breached (which I'll just call "malware" from hereon), or PII is being send (spyware). Malware seems obvious to me. That's breaching computer security, been illegal for quite a while now. Not worth the discussion though recently the government of The Netherlands made it legal for the police to hack its civilians. Spyware's legal status seems to have changed since GDPR though. Sure, a lot of spyware is shady, makers of it don't care. But the spyware being bundled with software was done by someone. And in this case, it appears to be within FileZilla's responsibility. You may not be from EU; I saw FileZilla developers being obviously from the EU and I am from the EU as well. So the GDPR does apply for me, for sure.

modzu 8y ago

yup, its been going on for years. its 2018. f* filezilla. winscp is a decent alternative

Fnoord 8y ago

This is allowed under GDPR? Doesn't this constitute breaking into computers?

vsl 8y ago
Even if it did (but that’s rubish), it would have nothing to do with GDPR - which isn’t your personal magic bullet against anything you might not like.
- Fnoord 8y ago
  Those two laws are, actually, my personal bullet against virtually everything I don't like happening to my own computer -as well as those owned by others (though that is not within my responsibility)-. I feel like you missed the point though. There's no obvious question to the computer user that this is going to happen; ie. there is no consent. Which is important with regards to GDPR. Next, what happens is the question. Either the security of the computer is breached (which I'll just call "malware" from hereon), or PII is being send (spyware). Malware seems obvious to me. That's breaching computer security, been illegal for quite a while now. Not worth the discussion though recently the government of The Netherlands made it legal for the police to hack its civilians. Spyware's legal status seems to have changed since GDPR though. Sure, a lot of spyware is shady, makers of it don't care. But the spyware being bundled with software was done by someone. And in this case, it appears to be within FileZilla's responsibility. You may not be from EU; I saw FileZilla developers being obviously from the EU and I am from the EU as well. So the GDPR does apply for me, for sure.