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I don't understand what's wrong with that site and why should it be taken down. It does not claim being an official website. Notepad++ is open source so anyone
by vbezhenar 3y ago
I don't understand what's wrong with that site and why should it be taken down. It does not claim being an official website. Notepad++ is open source so anyone can distribute it.
- bilekas 3y agoIt's deceptive and there is no reason to believe that after some more backlinks are generated by being deceived, that the owners of the fake site wouldn't change the download to their own modified version. It's a security nightmare and overall just scummy behavior.
- duxup 3y agoI think the concern is that it climbs the search rankings and then decides to redirect elsewhere. Unfortunately this is not an usual pattern / been seen before. It already is pushing malicious ads on it. THAT is a problem already.
- HDThoreaun 3y agoHow are the ads malicious?
- baobabKoodaa 3y agoA mysterious man ringing your doorbell at night while holding a knife has not done anything illegal, but the odds that they do something bad is high enough to warrant action.
- datavirtue 3y agoThat's provocation.
- DEADMINCE 3y agoChange the example to a gun in a holster on a hip then.