- Jun 9, 2013
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Download.com, one of the popular software download sites on the Internet, seems to have stopped using download wrappers on its site to serve software downloads to visitors.
A download wrapper is a program that is offered to users who initiate downloads on a website making use of them. It displays advertisement and a link to the "real" program the user wanted to download in first place.
Companies claim that using them improves security and reliability of the transfer but it is mostly done to increase revenue by displaying offers to users.
In fact, download wrappers are a core potentially unwanted programs (PUP) source on the Internet.
Download.com up until now displayed the download wrapper link prominently on its website and a clean direct link less prominently on it after backlash over the implementation of the feature (it first used the download wrapper exclusively).
If you visit the site today and check out download pages on it, you will notice that only one download link is listed on it.
Read more here. http://www.ghacks.net/2015/06/30/it-seems-that-download-com-just-stopped-using-download-wrappers/
A download wrapper is a program that is offered to users who initiate downloads on a website making use of them. It displays advertisement and a link to the "real" program the user wanted to download in first place.
Companies claim that using them improves security and reliability of the transfer but it is mostly done to increase revenue by displaying offers to users.
In fact, download wrappers are a core potentially unwanted programs (PUP) source on the Internet.
Download.com up until now displayed the download wrapper link prominently on its website and a clean direct link less prominently on it after backlash over the implementation of the feature (it first used the download wrapper exclusively).
If you visit the site today and check out download pages on it, you will notice that only one download link is listed on it.
Read more here. http://www.ghacks.net/2015/06/30/it-seems-that-download-com-just-stopped-using-download-wrappers/