Enough with the download manager ads

I’m sure at some point you’ve run into these “download manager” thingees before. The general jist is, “Our lawyers require that we have 30 different ‘click here to approve the license‘ dialogs, and our management requires we have as many steps as possible to harvest demographic info to sell, so we can’t have you deep-linking to a download, even for a free product. So we ship you a little binary artifact to shell out to wget. Everyone’s happy!”

Except the user, because you’ll note the entire thing is user-hostile to begin with.

Anyway, at some point Mammon came a-calling and they realized, wow we have potentially unused pixels, that we can use to sell! And sell they did:

So not only are we user-hostile, we can’t be bothered to sell anything but one product, even if our data we harvested shows everyone uses our stupid download manager to download the product we then turn around and try to promote/sell to them.