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I just went to grab the latest version of TortoiseSVN and was tricked into clicking an Adsense ad. Under the word "Download" on the TortoiseSVN downloads page is a graphical arrow pointing directly to an ad. The catch is that the first link within the ad was matched to the webpage content, and happened to describe exactly what I was looking for - "Windows Installer Program" - I clicked the link.

As of today, the TortoiseSVN download page appears to be violating the AdSense guidelines for keeping an account from being disabled. Specfically: "Encouraging users to click on your Google ads, either directly or indirectly, can lead to inflated advertiser costs and can cause your account to be disabled".

Although the trick made them somewhere around $0.0001, I did eventually download and install TortoiseSVN version 1.4.3.

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