If the situation were reversed, and the default were clean and the adware was buried under "check below for more options," nobody would do it. The entire point

If the situation were reversed, and the default were clean and the adware was buried under "check below for more options," nobody would do it. The entire point here is to trick or confuse people who aren't paying attention. I don't know why anybody would ever trust software that uses such dark patterns. Yes it's open source, but who has time to audit everything? We have to rely on other signals to determine how trustworthy a project is, and this is a strong negative signal.