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We've had to ban the application entirely from our work machines. At least when we went through review, even the "clean" versions packaged things that tripped our antivirus software, and at that point, we as an organization decided to stop trusting the author entirely.

There's quite a lot of forum posts where the author defends this practice, so we don't see this reversing any time soon.

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We packaged it ourselves and made it available as an SCCM bundle, since users don't have admin rights on their systems anyway.

I'm surprised nobody made a forked commercial version yet.

Remove the adware, replace the logo, sell commercial licenses.

There's FileZilla Pro.

https://filezillapro.com/

As someone who is happy to pay for good software, I can't ever see myself buying a paid version of something (no matter how good it might be) if the author has a history of using dark patterns and showing their apparent contempt for their users with the "free" edition. I'd be constantly wondering what other traps might be lurking in there.

Right. The fact that you can get around something, or that someone failed to do something to you is not the important thing. What matters far more is the fact that they tried and wanted to.

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