Adware is on the rise, thanks in part to various "download managers" file hosts have begun wrapping their software with. Taking a few seconds to check what links you're clicking on will usually reveal a checkbox or direct download to avoid getting the unwanted bytes (and toolbars), but that doesn't make it any less annoying. Sadly, we may soon be taking the decade-old FileHippo off the whitelist, with news it's looking to introduce its own helper.
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