It also says “free of installer bundles” while (at least in past, don’t know about now) their default windows installer was including ads (source)
P.S.: If you want to disable the in-app ads, here’s how to: https://gist.github.com/yunooooo/87564a0293a1c7a53fb3e233a604c638
Is there still no open source replacement?
oh there are plenty such. kget, aria2, uget, and motrix off the top of my head. but people use jdownloader for the same reason they use windows – it’s what they know.
More like JDownloader supports almost every download host website in existence without any hoops. Most other applications just support standard http downloads which may be difficult to use with many websites.
I wrote a blog post about how to remove the ads and enable dark mode for JDownloder2 here.
Oh nice, dark mode. Thanks
Well, they are still the most versatile download tool in existence… And not like you guys are downloading legal stuff with that
Yup.
The annoyance from dealing with those crappy file hosters alone is enough to send them a couple bucks.JDownloader is a tool whose continued development is well worth supporting.
Why not use free download manager instead?
Does that one have something like Click’nLoad and a Browser add-on or app to allow for it when the Downloader is running on a remote machine? Can it run on my server and be accessed through a browser or said app?
Does it handle various hosters including debrid?
I’m not sure about Click’nLoad or Debrid, but aria2 does all the other things you just listed.
I do not know the answer to some of your questions, but it can handle download links directly from the browser
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Its not though, they are different platforms for very different types of downloads.
Hardly an alternative. JD is a http auto downloader, QB is a torrent downloader.
that’s a completely different thing
How is a torrent client an alternative to a download manager?
