I recently helped someone install vlc. I googled VLC download (relying on Google) and then clicked through the clearly labelled download links. I accidentally

I recently helped someone install vlc. I googled VLC download (relying on Google) and then clicked through the clearly labelled download links. I accidentally must have clicked a link twice because two copies started downloading. The more recent one was finished so I literally started opening the executable. The only thing that stopped me was that it was called vlc-streaming or something, and the one next to it was still downloading, slowly. That's because it was a download triggered by vlc's ad partner. It wasn't VLC. This wasn't some shady part of the Internet. I was livid. If they had given it the same name, size, and approximate download speed as the file I was downloading, I would have had zero way to determine this. Everyone has accidentally started two downloads when they just wanted one copy. Unreal that this could happen on an official site. (And that it basically tricked me.)