Quote - I don't download any free stuff and haven't in years, but unless before today it had some kind of telepathic link to a spontaneous download the moment your brain decided on something, I can't see a problem there.

Well, compare it to beforehand, where you simply got a pop-up window that (assuming the freebie maker linked directly to the zip file), you clicked one button ("Download"), and the download began, no multipage click-through spamvertising to deal with. At worst, you would be redirected to the freebie hoster's site, and you could download the item from there.

Now? Having just tested the thing (Vicky 4 braces), here's what happened: I click "download", scroll all the way down this long-arsed redirect page to find a second download button, click that, get a pop-up containing a third download button, then rename the file to something that's more descriptive than "file_54371.zip" before it actually downloads.

On the retardation scale, this ranks up there with Fileplanet circa 2005.

I'm kinda surprised Rendo didn't install an enforced 45-second wait for the download to begin, unless you're a "premium" member and paid for the privilege of not waiting...