SourceForge locked in projects of fleeing users, cashed in on malvertising
Found on Ars Technica on Tuesday, 02 June 2015
Despite promises to avoid deceptive advertisements that trick site visitors into downloading unwanted software and malware onto their computers, these malicious ads are legion on projects that have been taken over by SourceForge's anonymous editorial staff.
GIMP never enrolled in DevShare—SourceForge foisted the adware on the project's Windows installer after taking over the project's page. On Sunday, the GIMP team issued an official statement through Michael Schumacher, a maintainer of the GIMP website. It said that the GIMP team was never informed of what SourceForge was going to do.
Sourceforge has lost the trust from their once big userbase. Taking over projects and shoving adware to the users is the best way to make users angry who are pestered with ads everywhere online.