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Re:I Spent $6M on Google Ads Last Year by 101404 on Monday April 27, 2020 @12:35PM (#22997398)
Do people still download "setup.exe" files from random sites on the Internet and run them on their PCs?

Maybe a link to some sort of "app store" (or whatever its called on Windows) would be more convincing?

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Re:I Spent $6M on Google Ads Last Year by Aaronstotle on Monday April 27, 2020 @12:48PM (#22997515)
Yes, the Windows store is pretty awful and I feel like most Windows users have been installing software this way for a while (myself included).

I believe all of my current software besides games were installed this way.

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Re:I Spent $6M on Google Ads Last Year by mchristen on Monday April 27, 2020 @12:42PM (#22997455)
To answer your first question, yes, quite a bit.
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Re:I Spent $6M on Google Ads Last Year by taneq on Monday April 27, 2020 @11:34PM (#23003058)
Yes, because there's no real choice. Only installing from an app store adds a little protection, but not much. The fundamental issue is the design of desktop OS' security models, which are focused around protecting local users from other local users, not around protecting local users from untrusted software.

(More than happy to hear suggestions for easy-to-use sandboxing for desktop software. The whole situation makes me quite uncomfortable.)

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Re:I Spent $6M on Google Ads Last Year by Negitivefrags on Monday April 27, 2020 @05:11PM (#23000068)
Not throwing away 30% of your revenue is a pretty good reason to still allow people to download your product from a website.
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Re:I Spent $6M on Google Ads Last Year by invalidOrTaken on Monday April 27, 2020 @12:40PM (#22997444)
...yes.

(I should probably change my ways.)

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Re:I Spent $6M on Google Ads Last Year by winkeltripel on Monday April 27, 2020 @01:27PM (#22997890)
(Microsoft could allow the store to be less terrible)
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Re:I Spent $6M on Google Ads Last Year by anchpop on Monday April 27, 2020 @04:00PM (#22999376)
What's terrible about the store?
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Re:I Spent $6M on Google Ads Last Year by Tepix on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @02:35AM (#23004106)
You can digitally sign your executables to increase trust.
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