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There was only one download button/link, and it was the correct one. Rather than fight with it, I installed uBlock Origin in Waterfox, and the site cleared right up.

It was a barebones Waterfox G installation, and I couldn’t figure out which one of the links was the real link on the site. This was on my vestigial Win11 installation when I was downloading the customization programs, so my browser wasn’t set up with shields up like the one in Linux. I was on such a site the other day with multiple “download” buttons, and it was the official download site of the software dev (yes, I had to check that one to be sure). Ads are one thing, but when you have ads that masquerade as the actual content or that obscure that content, you make the site nearly unusable without adblockers.

This is where advertisers or site owners shoot themselves in the foot. It is very common for ads on any download site to include fake “click here to download” buttons so that a page where you are trying to download a given program has several of these, in addition to the real download button or link, and it is sometimes difficult to figure out which one takes you to the actual download you wanted. Content scraping sites use bots to scour the web and grab articles or pictures from other people’s sites to offer as their own.Įven legit downloading sites can get involved in some sleazy stuff. Pirate video sites offer up content they don’t own or license and use it to lure people to see their ads. On Youtube, it is common for people to grab the videos from other people and post them as their own, whole or in part. You can see this kind of thing everywhere. Hopefully the version they offer is actually the real deal and not a version with malware inserted.

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