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Good rule of thumb is to look for the smallest "Download" link on the page.
by jiggy2011 14y ago
Good rule of thumb is to look for the smallest "Download" link on the page.
- vermontdevil 14y agoWon't be long before this rule of thumb goes out of the window. They'll probably make a one by one pixel link that links to the clean download file.
- philbarr 14y agoMaybe we could write a chrome/firefox plugin that highlights downloads that are from the same domain? Or perhaps hides non-domain ones? Would that clean up most of these issues? You'd probably have to have a button to toggle this on and off.
- jiggy2011 14y agoMost of these freeware download sites tend to use mirror sites for the actual downloads. The download link for the actual product will often really be a redirect to a page with a "your download will start in 5 seconds" and then some JS triggers the actual download. Even the legit download will usually offer you toolbars and crap anyway.
- philbarr 14y agoWe could add the most common mirror sites as exceptions, you could add your own, and of course you can always toggle it on and off? I think that may make it useful enough...
- lmm 14y agoAdblock covers the use case.
- bjustin 14y agoSo true, the real one is almost always an ordinary looking link rather than a button.