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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 qualities of the software, that I use daily.

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What am I missing? I had three clicks, zero ads.

I clicked here: http://www.getpaint.net/download.html

Then I clicked here: http://www.dotpdn.com/downloads/pdn.html

Then here for the file: 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.

these are the ads:

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=45... god knows what kind of stuff you'd get if you downloaded/ran that...)

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.

Just use ninite.

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.

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.

thanks!

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

cinst paint.net

ninite.com may help with that.

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