On 15 March 2012 10:55, Stefan Küng <tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Since this comes up every few months, I will now comment on this. But
> only this once.
>
>
> Yes, there are ads on our website. Shocking, I know.
>
> An open source project that uses ads? That's sacrilege!
> And then those ads even try to make you buy stuff, want you to spend
> your money or download something? That's outrageous!
I don't think anyone is complaining about that part.
> Now let's get real:
>
> TSVN is open source and uses ads on the website. That's not gonna change.
>
> After you click on the download buttons you get redirected to the
> sourceforge download page, which also shows multiple ads. In case you
> haven't figured that out yet: sourceforge is a separate website, they
> provide the servers to host our downloads for us. What that download
> page looks like or what ads are shown there is not our business, it's
> not our page, not our website.
Not a problem with the sourceforge page. There is a message at the top
saying that your download will start in 5 seconds and then the save
file dialog pops up. You don't have to click anything. It's _our_ page
which is misleading.
> The Ads on the TSVN website are marked as such - you should really
> know by now how ads on the internet look like and know how to separate
> them from normal content. If not you should maybe think of not using
> the internet unsupervised.
If you look at the screenshot Kurt sent you will see they are not
clearly marked at all. OK there is a very small adsense triangle in
one corner. I would not call that clearly marked. But worse than that
they appear above our own download buttons. If the ad was below our
buttons, or in a separate panel on the right then it would not be so
misleading.
> TSVN uses AdSense to show ads. Google doesn't allow malware to be
> distributed by its ads. So the worst you could 'get' is an
> advertising toolbar which you can simply uninstall later, just in case
> you forgot to check what exactly you're installing.
I think someone reported just a couple of months ago that they did get
malware from our site. Google cannot possibly download and test every
app that is linked to from their ads. They only know about malware
after someone takes the trouble to report it to them.
> You already get TSVN for free, so stop complaining.
Simon
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Received on 2012-03-15 12:10:23 CET