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Originally Posted by gubatron  Most of our .xxx folders are there to not bother the user with things they don't understand. No malicious code anywhere, go ahead and checkout our repo.
If they're undocumented, by all means go to our repo ( frostwire / frostwire / overview), read the code and document away, help is needed. We could use people making youtube videos explaining what things are and why they are there.
The promo's usually have a "Download Now" button, if not it's pretty obvious that if you click you'll start downloading a torrent. These promo's are there for no cost to the Content Creators and they are a show case of what legal p2p is and how the network can be used to their advantage. We have help distribute several million legal downloads of movies, music albums and software. We are friends of Vodo.net and other organizations looking to promote free content. Thanks for calling us scumbags before talking to us.
The Ask toolbar offer has been there for years, if you can read you will not install it, if you do you can help the project continuity.
As of 4.21.x FrostWire we have now implemented automatic updates via BitTorrent, this way we eat our own food to distribute our technology, we have still not rolled out the first automatic update, this will happen for 4.21.2 once it's ready.
So nope, no malware, we'll never do malware, we're not that stupid.
Feel free to visit our forum's at http://frostwire.com/forums
We'll soon be activating the Mojito DHT aswell (in case anybody is wondering).
The FrostWire Team |
It is quite simple. If a user can't opt out of something, then you have to make the user aware of this. If you want to promote something, then make it clear to the user what you are promoting. Doing things "behind the scenes" is generally not liked. A good example would be the recent Adobe reader downloads, where until enough users got furious about it, there was an already checked "Include MacAfee Security Scan" nicely hidden away from sight at the very bottom of the page.
While I'm sure you aren't breaking laws by doing this, you are losing the clients trust. And the "If you read closely enough" I'm afraid doesn't fly.
Your site says: No Spyware. No Adware. Guaranteed.
http://www.frostwire.com/ Shouldn't it be. "Choice to opt out of adware install."?
What is Ask if I may ask? Do you really believe that Ask isn't adware. What's your definition of adware then?
Also I see absolutely no mention of Ask upon downloading Frostwire. On the other hand the moment I run the installer Comodo pops up asking about AskInstallChecker-1.5.0.0.exe, I chose to block it and now Frostwire won't install. Rerunning the installer with always blocking the above file worked. I was still asked if I was sure I wanted to continue install without installing the Ask.com Toolbar, which is just idiotic, since it's checked by default.
I also read the agreement in it's entirety and nowhere did it mention forced autoupdate nor your bandwidth being used to distribute anything.