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It's been awhile since I've downloaded from cnet. At one point you took seriously a role of serving the internet community by providing file mirror service albeit with ad support. You have now turned the process into a cesspool. The user must pick through a minefield to avoid "consenting" to the installation of useless and undesired crapware. It is RealMedia redux. You have no organizational integrity and you will just lose all your valuable users and become a remnant used only by technical morons. All your tech employees with skills and ethics will leave. The site will eventually lose enough money to be put out of its misery.

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