Den tors 17 sep. 2020 kl 12:09 skrev Lenz Grimmer <lgrimmer@suse.com>:

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Thanks for the info! That prompted me to read up some more on this. RTD is actually quite open and honest about their advertising model [1] and they do provide options to opt out of paid ads [2], so that's definitely an option that we should consider disabling, if we haven't done so already. At present, I personally feel that the benefits of hosting the docs on their platform vs. doing it on our own infrastructure are an acceptable trade-off for ads, especially if these are about other open source projects only.

I think many see the similarities to things like Sourceforge and related sites that were very free/open source friendly, but then at some point decided money was better than ethics, sold it off to someone else who started to inject scary malware into the downloadable installers. Everyone that doesn't scramble off such a site quickly as soon as this becomes public will get their reputation tainted if such an event happens. Not saying it will, just remembering that it has happened before and that you don't get any advance warning when the hosters turn to evil practices. -- May the most significant bit of your life be positive.