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The most difficult challenge was to survive constant pressures from crapware for bundling deals.

Filezilla and alikes succumbed to that long time ago while VLC stand above the crowd.

Kudos, hats off and happy birthday!

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> The most difficult challenge was to survive constant pressures from crapware for bundling deals.

We receive 5 of those offers per week, with VLC. And the amounts proposed are very very tempting.

>We receive 5 of those offers per week, with VLC. And the amounts proposed are very very tempting.

Thank you for not doing it.

Please keep staying away from it. FileZilla burned them-self, everyone moved to alternatives

everyone moved to alternatives

Like? I want to move to an alternative, but nothing reasonably easy to use and deploy on windows comes close FileZilla for performance.

client-side, you can use WinSCP, free, supports SCP, SFTP and FTP protocols. You can also use any piece of software on your computer to edit remote files, you juste have to configure file extensions in the parameters (like MSWord for .doc/.docx, notepad++ for .txt/.log/whatever, etc)

I use WinSCP when I can and quite like it. The big problems is that for some reason it is so much slower at downloading and especially uploading files that it really isn't usable in many cases.

Second +WinSCP.

The moment FileZilla prostituted itself - it's wiped out of my list of any useful tools immediately and forever.

The message I'm getting here is that we the users should probably send you more money.

Also wanted to say thank you for not doing it. Filezilla and Sourceforge both completely lost me as a user instantly by trying to pull that crap.

Are all of those really crapware? Maybe you can hand-pick some useful utilities and bundle with default unchecked (checkbox) install option?

What useful utilities have you seen bundled with anything, then?

I've seen freeware antivirus bundled (McAfee, Avast). Can be useful for some people.

Thank you for not doing it, have my donation instead!

cheers for a great piece of software I use and love since probably around 12 years :)!

Would be nice to see the text of those offers, like the way the rpi foundation released the text of the offer they got (I've started to investigate the PUP ecosystem, and now said ecosystem includes the shittiest Indian winlockers and fakealert trojans, designed to get less knowledgeable user to call fake tech support)

mail me and I can send some of those.

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