Advertising on the official download page?
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What has happened to the official download page? I was trying to help someone in a Reddit thread who wrote:
I started to download it from the webpage but it seems that it wants me to add a “Safety Extension” and make my search engine Yahoo.
I asked him for more information and he posted a screenshot that looked very odd:
I made a screenshot to show how it should look, and then I realized my ad blocker icon was lit and in the shot. It surprised me that there was anything for my ad blocker to filter; when I turned it off, I saw this:
I see that the layout changes (randomly?) when I refresh the page, but it always shows something like that.
@donho : This cannot be intended, right?
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Website hosting companies get most of their revenue from advertisers; their customers pay a high premium for ad-free hosting.
If your browser hasn’t been neutered by Google’s Manifest v3 protocol, just install uBlock Origin.
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@rdipardo OK, thank you for the clarity.
I’ve used uBlock Origin so long that I never realized there was advertising on the official Notepad++ site. Only when I tried to sort out the newcomer’s confusion did I notice that anything was being blocked. I was even more surprised to find out it would something like this — crapware at best (if not malware) trying to misdirect users on the download page.
From now on I will tell people to download from GitHub. (And yes, I realize I could tell them which links to use. It’s… embarrassing.)
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@Coises said in Advertising on the official download page?:
I’ve used uBlock Origin so long that I never realized there was advertising on the official Notepad++ site.
Exactly.
But unfortunately this issue is repeating: #12134 , #16324
I consider such ads to be intentionally misleading, i.e. malware.
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I would happily make a small monthly donation to Notepad++ if it helped Don Ho pay whatever it takes to make this problem go away.
