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getpaint.net is mentioned elsewhere itt. Perhaps not quite as bad, but still at least mildly deceptive.


Gotcha. Yeah, I see one there. Big green button with a down arrow saying "GET IT NOW" lots of whitespace below and then a smallish rewaterpressure logo. Because of the whitespace, the button very much looked associated with the paint.net download text above, not with the rewaterpressure logo below.

I also received the less bad (but still bad) text-based "start download now" one the same page. You convinced me. Editing my parent post above.

EDIT: for those curious, here's what the page looked like on the page load mentioned above: http://imgur.com/SisOXNT

They were all Google served ads.




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