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The terrible experience of pulling down an installer for Paint.net was one of the final straws that pushed me to move over to using chocolatey for windows works

The terrible experience of pulling down an installer for Paint.net was one of the final straws that pushed me to move over to using chocolatey for windows workstation setup. > choco install paint.net Unfortunately, while that allows me to never see fake download-button ads when pulling down software for my machine, one place it's still a nightmare in is the world of getting minecraft mods installed on a kid's computer. Picking out the real download link from among all the fake ads is sometimes a real challenge.

Nexxxeh 10y ago
Have you got uBlock Origin installed?
julianz 10y ago
Yep, the only time I've ever managed to install malware was trying to put a very ordinary Minecraft mod on for my kid. How to feel stupid in one easy move.
- aerique 10y ago
  Don't feel too hard on yourself. While I do not think I've installed malware because of that, I've mostly been lucky I guess (or just haven't noticed the malware yet). The stars are aligned against you on this: 1) impatient kid who wants his mod working, 2) unfamiliar territory for you, 3) the timing for these things is ALWAYS wrong, you've probably got pressing household matters to attend to or another kid wanting your attention, 4) a couple of more points I forgot.
ThomW 10y ago
I was going to say - obviously the author of this post hasn't looked for Minecraft mods, because there the problem is far worse.
- phit_ 10y ago
  is it? 99% of the mods nowadays can be downloaded from Curse [1] without any ads and for easy mod management you can even install their launcher those that can't, can be usually found on this site with their official download site linked [2] [1] https://minecraft.curseforge.com/ https://minecraft.curseforge.com/ [2] https://bot.notenoughmods.com/ https://bot.notenoughmods.com/
  - DanBC 10y ago
    >and for easy mod management you can even install their launcher Does that launcher ask for the username and password? That's a pretty lousy message to be teaching mostly children about password security.
    - phit_ 10y ago
      no it does not, it launches the vanilla client in which you enter your username and password so it goes directly to Mojang! the launcher (technically a wrapper around the normal launcher) was recently rebranded to Twitch Launcher since Amazon (Twitch) bought Curse https://mods.curse.com/client https://mods.curse.com/client
      - DanBC 10y ago
        Ah, that's good. Thanks for the correction.
  - emmelaich 10y ago
    Or FeedTheBeast
- Karunamon 10y ago
  You can thank the community's reliance on scummy ad-laded URL shorteners like Adfly for that. It seems like every time I'm going through an adfly link, there's a fake download button. Worse, they've got fairly effective adblock detection.

Nexxxeh 10y ago

Have you got uBlock Origin installed?

julianz 10y ago

Yep, the only time I've ever managed to install malware was trying to put a very ordinary Minecraft mod on for my kid. How to feel stupid in one easy move.

aerique 10y ago
Don't feel too hard on yourself. While I do not think I've installed malware because of that, I've mostly been lucky I guess (or just haven't noticed the malware yet). The stars are aligned against you on this: 1) impatient kid who wants his mod working, 2) unfamiliar territory for you, 3) the timing for these things is ALWAYS wrong, you've probably got pressing household matters to attend to or another kid wanting your attention, 4) a couple of more points I forgot.

ThomW 10y ago

I was going to say - obviously the author of this post hasn't looked for Minecraft mods, because there the problem is far worse.

phit_ 10y ago
is it? 99% of the mods nowadays can be downloaded from Curse [1] without any ads and for easy mod management you can even install their launcher those that can't, can be usually found on this site with their official download site linked [2] [1] https://minecraft.curseforge.com/ https://minecraft.curseforge.com/ [2] https://bot.notenoughmods.com/ https://bot.notenoughmods.com/
- DanBC 10y ago
  >and for easy mod management you can even install their launcher Does that launcher ask for the username and password? That's a pretty lousy message to be teaching mostly children about password security.
  - phit_ 10y ago
    no it does not, it launches the vanilla client in which you enter your username and password so it goes directly to Mojang! the launcher (technically a wrapper around the normal launcher) was recently rebranded to Twitch Launcher since Amazon (Twitch) bought Curse https://mods.curse.com/client https://mods.curse.com/client
    - DanBC 10y ago
      Ah, that's good. Thanks for the correction.
- emmelaich 10y ago
  Or FeedTheBeast
Karunamon 10y ago
You can thank the community's reliance on scummy ad-laded URL shorteners like Adfly for that. It seems like every time I'm going through an adfly link, there's a fake download button. Worse, they've got fairly effective adblock detection.