CNET's Download.com was consistently a safe source of software on the internet. The downloads were always fast, and certified to be spyware free, and not to mention quite plentiful. While I would sometimes hesitate to grab software from some site I was not familiar with, I never thought twice about downloading stuff from there.
Now CNET is apparently making a turn for the worse by wrapping the software in some required downloader. This apparently then tries to backdoor the user into changing their homepage, as well as one of those dreaded toolbars that I hate. Apparently you can opt out, but for the unsuspecting, they will be giving up pixels of browser space, and probably being tracked to these folks. Not exactly the type of open source I would like to support.
While times are tough, and obviously CNET has to show a profit. let's hope they can come up with some other way to do it. There is no point in using them for a download to avoid crapware, to get it directly from them anyway.
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