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Comment by AdmiralAsshat | Hacker News Reader

It's sad that FileZilla remains so popular long after the creator has chosen to monetize it with adware. I highly recommend any FileZilla user reading this should switch to WinSCP. It's free, open source, and not bundled with any crapware.

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I posted this further down the thread but may as well say it here too.

Cyberduck[1] was what I moved to after the FileZilla installer on Sourceforge forced me to wipe & reinstall Windows a few years back. It's available for MacOS and Windows, GPL3 licensed[2] and worked great for me at the time. I've since moved to Linux so I haven't been able to play around with any of the newer features/versions but it would be the first thing I tried if I switched back today. Definitely recommend taking a look.

[1]: https://cyberduck.io/

[2]: https://github.com/iterate-ch/cyberduck

I've been using Cyberduck for the past year and it is great. It was my replacement for Filezilla.

winscp has also previously bundled crapware (OpenCandy)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinSCP#Advertisements_in_insta...

Four years ago, with no incidents since.

It’s funny to see defense of a program that intentionally included adware in a previous version.

why? do you believe in no second chances?

When it comes to software security, second chances are for accidents.

I’m defending the four years of good behavior, not the bad behavior back then. People and companies make mistakes and bad decisions, and I don’t mind supporting them if they prove over time that they’ve changed. Four years of good behavior is long enough for me. If your response to a company doing something you don’t like is an eternal blacklist, even years after they respond to their customers and change their behavior, think about what you’re really encouraging. For one thing, never admitting anything, for another, coverups.

And the author pinky swears he won't reach into the cookie jar again.

Now you gonna tell me lftp was also bundled with crap?

If you do not require a GUI, FarManager[0] is great, too. It allows access to remote folders over ftp, sftp, smb (and probably others), is very light on resources, free software (BSD license), and all around a joy to use.

[0] https://www.farmanager.com/

I considered using winscp until I discovered it cannot limit itself to 1 connection.

This should go higher in the thread. I personally didn't know this behavior.

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