![]() ![]() I unfortunately had a very poor experience several years back in 2019. I do not recommend using FileZilla for work “If you are too stupid to not click on the giant green button, that’s your fault.” is the line I am paraphrasing which I got from the CDisplayEx acolytes. Clearly the people who work on FileZilla don’t care because they parrot the same nonsense reasoning I got from the criminals running CDisplayEx now after the original founder died. It’s a violation of trust and it will damage your reputation. There is nothing wrong with asking for donations or selling merch to fund your project, but there is everything wrong with taking advantage of people’s trust who have for years blindly installed your application because they love(d) it. The jerks who run that project are making the same defenses that FileZilla is now making which is just sad. This unfortunately is a reminder of when I got hit with malware installing CDisplayEx back in 2014. People generally dislike this and it’s a weak argument to say, “We have both a bundled and unbundled installer” when the bundled installer is the giant green download button. I can’t say that FileZilla bundles their installers with harmful viruses per se, but they do bundle it with AdWare and Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP). It’s especially bad when the software it’s being bundled with, is what people would generally consider almost a virus. One thing that really upsets me is when software providers all of a sudden decide to start providing their software as bundled installers. It was always my go to piece of software for FTP as both the client and server. It was heralded as being an excellent FTP client and server and I would have to agree. I have been using FileZilla since it came out (I think?) back in 2001. ![]()
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