SourceForge makes money off of advertising and lead generation. It might sound crazy, but SourceForge's traffic now is higher than it was 5 years ago. It peaked around 2-3 years ago, however. We are a small, agile company with a good team. We can keep the lights on with the current traffic levels without deceptive advertising nor bundled installers. That might not have been true with a large public company running them previously with quarterly earnings having to constantly grow.
Thanks for keeping the lights on. Please do make preparations with archive.org or Archive Team to preserve the projects on SourceForge just in case your current strategy does not work out.
The ad-blocker vs advertiser fight has just turned to total war, your target audience uses ad blockers more than any other demographic and you bet your profits on advertising.
