I will immediately admit I don't know anything about the policies of the Forge community and all that, but whenever I try to download Forge from the main page I end up on adfoc.us and my WOT goes "full panic mode, why are you on this website, you'll get ALL the malware". For a moment I thought I'd ended up on a fake website.

Is this ok?

I'm getting a lot of "not ok" vibes from it.

I want to use the ad supported links, but I can't trust this thing.

 

Apologies if this is the wrong section, again, total noob here

 

Also, don't I need direct links if I'm going to use wget from a linux command line on the server side? They don't seem to be around anymore, or at least, I'm not finding functioning ones for the most recent versions. They all 404 or 500.

If you dont like the ads dont use the ad links.

ALL ad sites have horrible ratings because nobody likes ads.

Anything that is actually malicious or inappropriate in the ads that are displayed I take care of as soon as they are reported.

Just use the ad site correctly and reaslize that it is ads. And you'll be fine. Each page has exact instructions and details on the top.

It's very clear what is happening and what you should be doing.

 

The download page lists all links with direct and ad links. So just look for yourself.

Unless you're willing to personally pay the bills for the server you're just gunna have to deal with ads.