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
I wrote a blog post about how to remove the ads and enable dark mode for JDownloder2 here.
You can also get it to use your KDE theme if that is more your thing
Edit: gtk theme, not kde
How?
I was mistaken and said KDE rather than GTK theme but you just need to add this add an environment variable before the operator on the desktop shortcut file and it should work
_JAVA_OPTIONS="-Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=on -Dswing.aatext=true -Dswing.defaultlaf=com.sun.java.swing.plaf.gtk.GTKLookAndFeel -Dswing.crossplatformlaf=com.sun.java.swing.plaf.gtk.GTKLookAndFeel ${_JAVA_OPTIONS}"I didn’t know that. I’ll try that and maybe make an edit and mention of it in that blog post
Oh nice, dark mode. Thanks
Thanks I just did that right now. It’s so nice having the Ad banners gone, and also a nice and well functioning dark mode too.
Well, they are still the most versatile download tool in existence… And not like you guys are downloading legal stuff with that
Same shit different software. I’m still using that turd Filezilla because literally no other FTP software I’ve tried has worked with the server run by WiiU homebrew.
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 suppose it’s a bit of a “hoop,” but what I use to download files with curl, aria2, or wget is a Firefox add-on “cliget” (I’m not sure if there’s a Chrome version). You click a link in the browser to download, and it generates a command for these programs to emulate a browser download. I don’t use it all the time, but I do for large files or slow downloads. Since these programs are CLI-based, I can run them on my server and let them work for as long as needed.
I guess it’s still not an option for people who download a lot using direct downloads, but still just putting it out there as an option for people like me.
