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I was going to say - obviously the author of this post hasn't looked for Minecraft mods, because there the problem is far worse.

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You can thank the community's reliance on scummy ad-laded URL shorteners like Adfly for that. It seems like every time I'm going through an adfly link, there's a fake download button.

Worse, they've got fairly effective adblock detection.

is it? 99% of the mods nowadays can be downloaded from Curse [1] without any ads and for easy mod management you can even install their launcher

those that can't, can be usually found on this site with their official download site linked [2]

[1] https://minecraft.curseforge.com/ [2] https://bot.notenoughmods.com/

>and for easy mod management you can even install their launcher

Does that launcher ask for the username and password?

That's a pretty lousy message to be teaching mostly children about password security.

no it does not, it launches the vanilla client in which you enter your username and password so it goes directly to Mojang! the launcher (technically a wrapper around the normal launcher) was recently rebranded to Twitch Launcher since Amazon (Twitch) bought Curse

https://mods.curse.com/client

Ah, that's good. Thanks for the correction.

Or FeedTheBeast

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