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eric 77 points 2 years ago

I wrote a blog post about how to remove the ads and enable dark mode for JDownloder2 here.

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MaggiWuerze 18 points 2 years ago

Oh nice, dark mode. Thanks

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Draconic_NEO 6 points 2 years ago

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.

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StarlightDust 0 points 2 years ago

You can also get it to use your KDE theme if that is more your thing

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eric 0 points 2 years ago

How?

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StarlightDust 0 points 2 years ago

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}"
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Sibbo 55 points 2 years ago

Well, they are still the most versatile download tool in existence... And not like you guys are downloading legal stuff with that

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zabadoh 14 points 2 years ago

JDownloader is a tool whose continued development is well worth supporting.

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LiveLM 14 points 2 years ago

Yup.
The annoyance from dealing with those crappy file hosters alone is enough to send them a couple bucks.

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GhiLA 13 points 2 years ago

Jdownloader2.

Everyone has that one asshole friend. He's ours.

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xnx 9 points 2 years ago

Is there still no open source replacement?

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AVincentInSpace 30 points 2 years ago

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.

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Syer10 26 points 2 years ago

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.

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TableteKarcioji 9 points 2 years ago

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.

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Comexs 4 points 2 years ago

I personally use AB Download Manager. It isn't as good as jdownload but work good enough for me.

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Ganbat 8 points 2 years ago

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.

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SaharaMaleikuhm 5 points 2 years ago

It doesn't have ads on linux. I like it.

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Ganbat 2 points 2 years ago

I still don't trust it given what the devs have done and how they responded to the community.

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GhiLA 1 point 2 years ago

I've only ever used it to move files to and from... yeah, hacked consoles.

If they can make off with my gold before sunset with that information, more power to them.

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Ganbat 0 points 2 years ago

The concern isn't so much them directly taking your money or info, but rather accepting money to enable someone else to.

Basically, they've been bundling ads with their installer for years, but several years back, whatever ad service they used without a care decided to start shipping spyware as well, in addition to the already existent deceptive patterns used in the installer.

You'd expect any good dev to be pissed if something like this got into their software, right? Well, they were pissed... at the users. The stupid, stupid users and cyber security researchers who dared to say this was a problem. They refused to acknowledge the problem, made excuses, removed discussions about it on their forums and tried to act like it wasn't a big deal even if there was malware because they also offer a download without the malware, provided as a nice, tiny link on a separate page.

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xnx 3 points 2 years ago

WiiU homebrew?

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Ganbat 2 points 2 years ago

Yeah, there's a module for the modern custom firmware that runs an ftp server in the background for file access. Let's you manage things, add homebrew, install games, etc without constantly swapping the SD card. For whatever reason, though, GNOME commander can't connect at all and gFTP disconnects immediately when trying to make a transfer.

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interdimensionalmeme 2 points 2 years ago

What about bpftp? (Bullet proof ftp) maybe someone made an open sourxe version

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Ganbat 3 points 2 years ago

Ah, didn't mention I'm on Linux. Not gonna bother with a paid client just for Wii U homebrew anyway.

Really kinda sucks that all the FTP clients that seem good are Windows only.

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LunarLoony 2 points 2 years ago

I've had luck with Krusader. Worth a try?

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Dhs92 4 points 2 years ago

Why not use free download manager instead?

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MaggiWuerze 10 points 2 years ago

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?

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AVincentInSpace 1 point 2 years ago

I'm not sure about Click'nLoad or Debrid, but aria2 does all the other things you just listed.

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Dhs92 0 points 2 years ago

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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DieserTypMatthias -3 points 2 years ago

Try Brave.

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MaggiWuerze 1 point 2 years ago

What difference will switching to a new browser make?

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stephaaaaan 1 point 2 years ago

Recently set up pyload, it‘s good for what it does. Or are there any pitfalls I don‘t know yet? :)

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recursive_recursion -16 points 2 years ago
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DarkSirrush 11 points 2 years ago

Its not though, they are different platforms for very different types of downloads.

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sabreW4K3 9 points 2 years ago

Hardly an alternative. JD is a http auto downloader, QB is a torrent downloader.

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rotkehle 5 points 2 years ago

that's a completely different thing

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Lumidaub 4 points 2 years ago

How is a torrent client an alternative to a download manager?

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thanks for using Leebra!

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