Comment 33 for bug 434979

My concern is that some (hopefully small) percentage of users will see no way to get past that dialog without donating. And worse, they will then assume that everybody else who uses it must donate. And that, combined with the fact that Ubuntu provides the package, will cause them to think it's reasonable to give them money.

It's a scam.

And I think it's entirely within the responsibility of ubuntu to protect users from it.

Honestly, yes, to the current situation, I would prefer that azureus be licensed as shareware, and not included in the Ubuntu repositories.

That dialog has existed for years. There is no way they have removed it. And even if they have removed it, patching azuerus to not display the dialog would have no effect.

I think the dialog should be disabled in the Ubuntu package now, and a bug filed against upstream requesting an obvious "I don't ever want to donate." option permanently disabling the dialog. And when that option is available, the dialog should be re-enabled in the Ubuntu package.

This bug is over a year old. When azureus finally got around to addressing it at all, they did so in as misleading a way as they possibly could.