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Sounds like a personal problem to me... This is a little shady, but all the units are clearly labeled as ads. I have a hard time getting as worked up over this

Sounds like a personal problem to me... This is a little shady, but all the units are clearly labeled as ads. I have a hard time getting as worked up over this as the author does. Paint.NET is a free product, what do you expect?

threeseed 9y ago
You could've at least visited the website. They are NOT clearly labeled as ads. https://www.getpaint.net/index.html https://www.getpaint.net/index.html
- webmaven 9y ago
  wcummings might mean the tiny grey-and-blue icons in the top right of each unit. If so, I disagree. Those icons are not visible enough, and are hard for many users to click without accidentally clicking the ad instead.
  - wcummings 9y ago
    At least one of them in the screenshots says "advertisement by", in addition to the tracking opt out icon. But yes that is what I was referring to.
  - emmelaich 9y ago
    Indeed. Little icons inside the square can also be imitated by ads and do something quite different.
- wcummings 9y ago
  There's screenshots in the article I don't see why that would be necessary. Anyway, all Google ads have a tracking opt out link. When I go to the site the ads aren't even "download" style ones like those in the screenshots, just normal banner ads.