Considering that you can install multiple programs this way in one go, you may also save some time using Ninite because of this. The installation itself happens silently in the background. The installer itself is a stub which means that the programs that you have selected are downloaded by it once you run it on a PC. Select the programs that you want to install on your computer and click get installer to download it to your system. When you first visit the website, a list of all supported programs is displayed to you. All programs offered on the site are free of adware. Ninite is a safe solution, at least for the more than 100 programs that you can download from the site.

That does not mean that you should trust software blindly downloaded from those portals as applications may still ship with adware. Some download portals, Softpedia for instance, don't use download wrappers. Most of the time, these offers are selected by default which means that any user clicking next next next during installation may end up with toolbars, replaced search providers, a new homepage or software running in the background. That in itself would not be problematic but the way these offers are presented often is. While you could distinguish between adware added by software developers and adware added by download portals, the end result is the same as users who install these programs on their systems will receive third-party offers unrelated to the program they are trying to install. I'm talking about adware that developers but also download portals add to programs to earn revenue.

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