Softpedia is a software and tech news
website
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based in
Romania
Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern, and Southeast Europe, Southeastern Europe. It borders Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the west, S ...
. It indexes, reviews and hosts various downloadable software and reports news on technology and science topics.
Website
Softpedia hosts reviews written by its staff—each review includes a 1 to 5 star rating and often a public rating to which any of the site's visitors may contribute.
Products are organised in categories which visitors can sort according to most recent updates, number of downloads, or ratings. Free software and commercial software (and their free trials) can also be separated. Softpedia displays virtual awards for products free of
adware
Adware, often called advertising-supported software by its developers, is software that generates revenue for its developer by automatically generating online advertisements in the user interface of the software or on a screen presented to the ...
,
spyware
Spyware (a portmanteau for spying software) is software with malicious behaviour that aims to gather information about a person or organization and send it to another entity in a way that harms the user—for example, by violating their priv ...
and commercial tie-ins. Products that include these unrelated and/or unanticipated components and offers (which are known as
potentially unwanted program
A potentially unwanted program (PUP) or potentially unwanted application (PUA) is software that a user may perceive as unwanted or unnecessary. It is used as a subjective tagging criterion by security and parental control products. Such software ma ...
s) are marked so visitors can make educated choices about them.
Softpedia does not repack software for distribution. It provides direct downloads of software in its
original provided form, links to
developers's downloads, or both. Softpedia hosts some products on its own servers in case they are unavailable from their developers' sites.
The site is owned by SoftNews NET SRL, a Romanian company.
In December 2008 SoftNews NET SRL also launched ''Autoevolution'' an automotive news and reference web site.
See also
*
Internet in Romania
References
External links
* {{Official website, https://www.softpedia.com/
Information technology companies of Romania
Download websites
Internet properties established in 2001