I'd say, with almost 100% certainty, that whoever made the screenshots for the page used Paint.NET to crop the images. Nothing nefarious here...
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I'd say, with almost 100% certainty, that whoever made the screenshots for the page used Paint.NET to crop the images. Nothing nefarious here...