Sorry to necro this thread, but I also wanted to comment and this was the top Google result. I also initially downloaded the wrong installer package at first thanks to these ads. Fortunately I knew something was wrong when it wanted me to download and install all this other garbage.
It was on a work PC (not mine) that did not have an ad-blocker installed. Being a work PC, we do not necessarily have authorization or even appropriate privileges to modify things (yay for Corporate IT!)
Anyway, while ad-blockers are great in most cases, when an author relies on the ad income, it seems wrong to just say "Just use an ad-blocker and you won't see them."
Fake "Download" links on http://getpaint.net
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Sorry to necro this thread, but I also wanted to comment and this was the top Google result. I also initially downloaded the wrong installer package at first thanks to these ads. Fortunately I knew something was wrong when it wanted me to download and install all this other garbage.
It was on a work PC (not mine) that did not have an ad-blocker installed. Being a work PC, we do not necessarily have authorization or even appropriate privileges to modify things (yay for Corporate IT!)
Anyway, while ad-blockers are great in most cases, when an author relies on the ad income, it seems wrong to just say "Just use an ad-blocker and you won't see them."
My $0.02