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Help Notpad++ take down the parasite website (notepad-plus-plus.org)
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[–] rbn@sopuli.xyz 17 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I often take the link from the project's Wikipedia page if it's big enough to have one.

[–] eveninghere@beehaw.org 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Well, actually, anybody can edit Wikipedia and the page updates immediately.

[–] rbn@sopuli.xyz 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

True but I'd hope that there's still some review for the bigger projects. Of course, it's possible that a malicious link is inserted right before I go there but it's still more reliable than just chosing the first result on Google.