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Maybe he makes money also with the 50 pages displaying ads you have to visit before to be able to download the file. But this does not detract from the qualitie

Maybe he makes money also with the 50 pages displaying ads you have to visit before to be able to download the file. But this does not detract from the qualities of the software, that I use daily.

adventured 12y ago
What am I missing? I had three clicks, zero ads. I clicked here: http://www.getpaint.net/download.html http://www.getpaint.net/download.html Then I clicked here: http://www.dotpdn.com/downloads/pdn.html http://www.dotpdn.com/downloads/pdn.html Then here for the file: http://www.dotpdn.com/files/paint.net.4.0.install.zip http://www.dotpdn.com/files/paint.net.4.0.install.zip I use adblock, but when I fired up another browser, I still had three clicks, and the only ads were one typical square block ad, that didn't get in the way at all.
- arb99 12y ago
  these are the ads: https://www.dropbox.com/s/q9dzn78tfh2srnb/Screenshot%202014-06-25%2014.48.47.png https://www.dropbox.com/s/q9dzn78tfh2srnb/Screenshot%202014-... It isn't really a bad thing. He's giving the software away for free. I'm never a fan of the ones that pretend to be the download link (the ad on the left linked to http://www.mac-zip.com/lp/freezip_osx/df?mnag=155060&mnct=4528&mncr=0&gclid=COSOiI6Ilb8CFUcV7AodOT0Acw http://www.mac-zip.com/lp/freezip_osx/df?mnag=155060&mnct=45... god knows what kind of stuff you'd get if you downloaded/ran that...)
  - adventured 12y ago
    Interestingly, others seem to be seeing two ads. With Chrome I only get one ad square, the one on the left part of the page. The ad on the right never shows up.
- el_duderino 12y ago
  Just use ninite.
soneca 12y ago
Maybe. Myself I just used the "If you’re using Paint.NET v3.5.x, go to the Utilities menu and click on “Check for Updates.” path. I would also like to have a confirmation from HN if the developer indeed make a living only out of Paint.NET.
- tanzam75 12y ago
  The developer of Paint.NET works for Microsoft. Thus, he does not "make a living only out of Paint.NET." Of course, that does not say whether or not he could live off Paint.NET if he wanted to.
  - soneca 12y ago
    thanks!
kodr 12y ago
ninite.com may help with that.
judah 12y ago
You can also install from Chocolatey: https://chocolatey.org/packages/paint.net https://chocolatey.org/packages/paint.net cinst paint.net

Maybe he makes money also with the 50 pages displaying ads you have to visit before to be able to download the file. But this does not detract from the qualities of the software, that I use daily.

adventured 12y ago

What am I missing? I had three clicks, zero ads. I clicked here: http://www.getpaint.net/download.html http://www.getpaint.net/download.html Then I clicked here: http://www.dotpdn.com/downloads/pdn.html http://www.dotpdn.com/downloads/pdn.html Then here for the file: http://www.dotpdn.com/files/paint.net.4.0.install.zip http://www.dotpdn.com/files/paint.net.4.0.install.zip I use adblock, but when I fired up another browser, I still had three clicks, and the only ads were one typical square block ad, that didn't get in the way at all.

arb99 12y ago
these are the ads: https://www.dropbox.com/s/q9dzn78tfh2srnb/Screenshot%202014-06-25%2014.48.47.png https://www.dropbox.com/s/q9dzn78tfh2srnb/Screenshot%202014-... It isn't really a bad thing. He's giving the software away for free. I'm never a fan of the ones that pretend to be the download link (the ad on the left linked to http://www.mac-zip.com/lp/freezip_osx/df?mnag=155060&mnct=4528&mncr=0&gclid=COSOiI6Ilb8CFUcV7AodOT0Acw http://www.mac-zip.com/lp/freezip_osx/df?mnag=155060&mnct=45... god knows what kind of stuff you'd get if you downloaded/ran that...)
- adventured 12y ago
  Interestingly, others seem to be seeing two ads. With Chrome I only get one ad square, the one on the left part of the page. The ad on the right never shows up.
el_duderino 12y ago
Just use ninite.

soneca 12y ago

Maybe. Myself I just used the "If you’re using Paint.NET v3.5.x, go to the Utilities menu and click on “Check for Updates.” path. I would also like to have a confirmation from HN if the developer indeed make a living only out of Paint.NET.

tanzam75 12y ago
The developer of Paint.NET works for Microsoft. Thus, he does not "make a living only out of Paint.NET." Of course, that does not say whether or not he could live off Paint.NET if he wanted to.
- soneca 12y ago
  thanks!

kodr 12y ago

ninite.com may help with that.

judah 12y ago

You can also install from Chocolatey: https://chocolatey.org/packages/paint.net https://chocolatey.org/packages/paint.net cinst paint.net