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They were prevalent. Then they started with adware. Then they bundled adware without developer consent.
Eventually they were bought with a goal of deshittyfication. So theyre fine and have good offerings, but the UI and UX is much worse than other platforms (never improved).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SourceForge#Adware_controversy