Is easyeffects.org an official EasyEffects website?

[dot-1245]

When I searched for "Easy Effects" on DuckDuckGo, the following website appeared higher in the search results than this GitHub repository:

• https://easyeffects[.]org/

Since this repository links to the GitHub Pages site (https://wwmm.github.io/easyeffects/), I wanted to ask whether easyeffects.org is an official website or an unofficial/potentially misleading site.

I noticed a few things that made me suspicious:

• Blank pages: The "Privacy Policy" and "About Us" pages appear completely blank when accessed from my clients (Floorp on Arch Linux with uBlock Origin disabled, and Chromium with no extensions).
• Questionable descriptions: Some of the feature descriptions seem exaggerated or don't match what I would expect from Easy Effects. For example, the site advertises a "real-time system monitor", but the displayed monitor doesn't appear to update.
• Very bare-bones website: The site is essentially a single-page website, and some parts of the design/content look like they may have been generated from a generic template.

For technical reference:

• The domain appears to be registered through Spaceship, with MiddleHost nameservers. https://www.whois.com/whois/easyeffects.org
• Cloudflare Radar scan: https://radar.cloudflare.com/scan/4f501a45-e558-4c16-8a35-d61a4d2254b5/summary

Does anyone know anything about this domain? Is it affiliated with the Easy Effects project?

I'm not very good at English, so I used ChatGPT to help rewrite this. Sorry if the wording/formatting feels a bit AI-ish.

[wwmm]

I don't know if it is malicious site or note. What I can say with absolute certainty is that I have nothing to do with it. Until now I did not even know this site existed.

I moved away from gtk. As the site mentions the older grk version it may be from someone trying to keep it alive. But it may just be a scam. I don't know.

[dot-1245]

Thanks for your answer. Should I report it to DuckDuckGo (e.g., as spam or AI-generated content)?

[wwmm]

Maybe. The download button in that site is suspicious.

[dot-1245]

oh, I didn't notice the download button,
it's linked to easyeffects.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/easyeffects-master.zip ...
yeah, very suspicious
but I look inside zip with unzip -l(-l mean just look inside without actually unzip it),
it's seem copy of this repo
here is diff.
diff.txt
suspect_list.txt
real_list.txt

also, here is virustotal.
https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/7d00ff3ee436edfb3b9e9e9cf634a669ef374a908abcd505a9d26803f047fab6/summary
and virustotal of official one
https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/bb2beb9831177930185fe5d06deed0b46216bcb67d17d27f95f1915818151d26
there's no detect.

btw, suspicious one's checksum is

7d00ff3ee436edfb3b9e9e9cf634a669ef374a908abcd505a9d26803f047fab6  easyeffects-master.zip```

but it's still very suspicious

[wwmm]

By now people probably realized I am not good at graphical interface 😅. A fancy page like that one is unlikely to come from me 😄

[Vaisakhkm2625]

Can you please provide a warning in the readme to avoid such websites.
Many projects are facing same problem.

[dot-1245]

Can you please provide a warning in the readme to avoid such websites.
Many projects are facing same problem.

Yeah, I think so. AI Slop Spam is too easy to screw up Search engine

[wwmm]

Can you please provide a warning in the readme to avoid such websites. Many projects are facing same problem.

Done