RELATED: Has Finally Stopped Bundling Crapwareĭ finally ended its “CNET Installer” program sometime in early 2016, although it did this without any public announcement. There’s just a small bit of advertising for other Tucows services, like domain registration.
So there you have it: Tucows doesn’t offer the junk anymore. We considered just shutting the download site off but decided it felt more right to keep it running (with just a fraction of people’s time here) as a sort of public service.” “But we’ve been growing like crazy the last couple of years (from wonderful customer-focused, subscription services) and we realized it’s no longer worth the money to be associated with that nonsense. “For a while, we were struggling to walk away from the revenue,” Tucows’ Michael Goldstein told us.
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Tucows isn’t just a software download site–the company also makes money from selling domain names, cell phone service, and fiber Internet. On May 3, 2016, Tucows announced that it, too, was done with that practice. Back when we examined a variety of download sites, we called the Tucows software download site “an abomination should be removed from the Internet” and found that it was probably worse than even.
Tucows is another old freeware download site that succumbed to the temptation of packing its installers with junkware. We haven’t seen any of those ads on the new SourceForge. The second most important problem–misleading “Download” buttons that push you to third-party websites offering open-source project installers wrapped in junkware–also appears to have improved. SourceForge appears to be a trustworthy place to download open-source software from once again. We’re more interested in doing the right thing than making extra short-term profit,” they wrote in their announcement. “We want to restore our reputation as a trusted home for open source software, and this was a clear first step towards that. The new owners immediately began cleaning up SourceForge, terminating the controversial “DevShare” program that wrapped open-source installers in junkware, sometimes against the wishes of their developers.
At the end of January 2016, SourceForge was sold to a company named BIZX, LLC.