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I just went there and saw a fake start download button, but it was with the 'AdChoices' network, not AdSense.

EDIT: I guess AdSense is involved with AdChoices somehow. My mistake.

Pretty sure it's an AdSense ad: http://imgur.com/OBy1PFR

The AdChoices icon is used by many ad networks, not just Google's, to indicate that there's per-user targeting happening. [1] But if you click on that "AdChoices" button and you get an AdSense help page.

[1] http://www.youradchoices.com/faq.aspx

When I click the > I get https://support.google.com/adsense .

The link from the ad is to https://googleads.g.doubleclick.net

I don't see how it can't be a Google-sold ad.

I'm not too familiar with AdSense vs. DoubleClick vs. AdChoices, but when I hover the ad it shows a link to DoubleClick, the little triangle icon points to an AdSense support page, and the JavaScript to load the ad comes from googlesyndication.com. From what I understand, that all points to it being an AdSense ad.

I suspect the reason that kind of ad is allowed (despite being deceptive IMHO) is that it's not just a download link. It also indicates that it's an ad for a driver update site (which makes it even shadier to my eye, but probably not violating any policies).

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