![]() ![]() ![]() Ads are one thing, but when you have ads that masquerade as the actual content or that obscure that content, you make the site nearly unusable without adblockers. ![]() This is where advertisers or site owners shoot themselves in the foot. It is very common for ads on any download site to include fake “click here to download” buttons so that a page where you are trying to download a given program has several of these, in addition to the real download button or link, and it is sometimes difficult to figure out which one takes you to the actual download you wanted. Content scraping sites use bots to scour the web and grab articles or pictures from other people’s sites to offer as their own.Įven legit downloading sites can get involved in some sleazy stuff. Pirate video sites offer up content they don’t own or license and use it to lure people to see their ads. On Youtube, it is common for people to grab the videos from other people and post them as their own, whole or in part. You can see this kind of thing everywhere. Hopefully the version they offer is actually the real deal and not a version with malware inserted. ![]()
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