{"id":2335,"date":"2011-07-03T07:31:41","date_gmt":"2011-07-03T11:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=2335"},"modified":"2011-07-03T07:31:41","modified_gmt":"2011-07-03T11:31:41","slug":"really-please-be-careful-where-you-click","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/really-please-be-careful-where-you-click\/","title":{"rendered":"Really &#8211; please be careful where you click"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We posted a freeware pick yesterday (07\/02\/2011) called Duplicate File Finder. \u00a0We tested the program &#8211; on three different computers &#8211; XP\/Vista\/Windows 7 &#8211; before we published the article. The program is freeware &#8211; it is also free from ads, spyware, viruses or any other type of malware.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve had two comments now where people claimed they try to clean duplicate files and the program tried to charge them $29.95 to clean the duplicate files. The program we recommend does not charge anything &#8211; it has no such capacity. What happened here was these people clicked an\u00a0advertisement\u00a0instead of scrolling down the page and finding the download link. They were care careful where they clicked.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a picture of what they clicked:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/adupe.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2336\" title=\"adupe\" src=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/adupe.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"607\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/adupe.png 607w, https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/adupe-300x123.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 607px) 100vw, 607px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That is not the program we recommended &#8211; and despite what it says it is not free. The program we recommend is not called &#8220;Free Duplicate File Finder&#8221; it&#8217;s called &#8220;Duplicate File Finder&#8221; &#8211; and despite the names &#8211; only the program we recommended is free.<\/p>\n<p>Please folks, take your time and make sure you&#8217;re downloading the program we recommend and that you&#8217;re not clicking on an advertisement. Duplicate File Finder is free &#8211; it is not a scam &#8211; and if you download the one from the advertisement you&#8217;ll be asked to pay $29.95 when you try to clean duplicates.<\/p>\n<p>The program we recommend is called Duplicate File Finder &#8211; the download link is listed further down on the page we sent you to &#8211; it&#8217;s not listed at the top right of the page under Ad-Choices. The link to the free program we recommended is here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.12oclocker.com\/soft\/downloads\/dupfinder.zip\">Download the correct program Duplicate File Finder here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We posted a freeware pick yesterday (07\/02\/2011) called Duplicate File Finder. \u00a0We tested the program &#8211; on three different computers &#8211; XP\/Vista\/Windows 7 &#8211; before we published the article. The program is freeware &#8211; it is also free from ads, spyware, viruses or any other type of malware. We&#8217;ve had two comments now where people claimed they try\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/really-please-be-careful-where-you-click\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2335"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2337,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2335\/revisions\/2337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}