I wish there was finally a decent alternative to this junk. JDownloader pretends to be GPL, but parts of it are closed source. Plus, the Windows installer on the official site is a gamble, and you can only find a clean installer in the forum. The developers claim it’s "just adware", but since it’s a web-based installer, different things are offered depending on your IP address. Some of these install themselves even if you decline them, and some also contain real malware. It was actually to be expected that they wouldn't secure their website properly and that someone else would end up spreading malware as a result.
The only reason to still use this software is that it works with every obscure filehoster out there. Alternatives like pyload are much less effective at bypassing all the security measures these sites put in place to block download managers. It also lets you download videos from streaming sites that other tools like yt-dlp refuse to support.
I remember using download managers back in the day, and by "back in the day" I mean dial-up (and maybe early DSL). I liked being able to pause downloads and possibly split them up using multiple connections.
Nowadays, are download managers even needed anymore? At least for me, the internet is fast enough that I don't need a separate download manager, plus browsers support the pausing (and maybe multiple connections?) feature already.
I'm just curious why someone would need to use JDownloader.
There are still warez sites that upload content in RAR archives, which are then split into individual parts. A download manager can then download them all one after another instead of having to do it manually. There are also hosting sites with weird CAPTCHAs or various waiting times.
Not everyone have fast enough networks, there are places where people find it lucky to download something that is more than 2 GiBs without finding it to fail suddenly.
The ‘scene’ or warez sites are still up and running. Sharing cracked softwares, movies shows etc. through file hosting services. If say you wanted a Blu-ray movie with Dolby atmos sizing near 10 gig. Then you’d queue the file sharing site download links in jdownloader and let it automatically manage these downloads for you.
I'm not only complaining, I also work on a solution (asfaload) that I want easy to use. As it is multisig, such platform breaches become impossible. Below is the doc of the CLI, i'm looking for testers and challengers of the solution!
What's new? Hasn't JDownloader already served malware with the default installer for years, you had to use specific adware-free installers to avoid it?
Years ago I made my own "dark-ish mode" for it and holy hell, so annoying having to change 50 different more or less accurately labeled and named color settings that only take affect after restarting the program.
I’ve never run into a program that manages to disregard as many UX best practices as Jdownloader. It has more maddening features than I can count. Even stuff like sorting a column by date doesn’t work how you would want it to, because it applies some “package grouping”. It’s the epitome of nonsensical defaults, features that maybe 1% of the user base would want and care about but toggled on by default.
I wish there was finally a decent alternative to this junk. JDownloader pretends to be GPL, but parts of it are closed source. Plus, the Windows installer on the official site is a gamble, and you can only find a clean installer in the forum. The developers claim it’s "just adware", but since it’s a web-based installer, different things are offered depending on your IP address. Some of these install themselves even if you decline them, and some also contain real malware. It was actually to be expected that they wouldn't secure their website properly and that someone else would end up spreading malware as a result. The only reason to still use this software is that it works with every obscure filehoster out there. Alternatives like pyload are much less effective at bypassing all the security measures these sites put in place to block download managers. It also lets you download videos from streaming sites that other tools like yt-dlp refuse to support.
I remember using download managers back in the day, and by "back in the day" I mean dial-up (and maybe early DSL). I liked being able to pause downloads and possibly split them up using multiple connections.
Nowadays, are download managers even needed anymore? At least for me, the internet is fast enough that I don't need a separate download manager, plus browsers support the pausing (and maybe multiple connections?) feature already.
I'm just curious why someone would need to use JDownloader.
There are still warez sites that upload content in RAR archives, which are then split into individual parts. A download manager can then download them all one after another instead of having to do it manually. There are also hosting sites with weird CAPTCHAs or various waiting times.
Not everyone have fast enough networks, there are places where people find it lucky to download something that is more than 2 GiBs without finding it to fail suddenly.
The ‘scene’ or warez sites are still up and running. Sharing cracked softwares, movies shows etc. through file hosting services. If say you wanted a Blu-ray movie with Dolby atmos sizing near 10 gig. Then you’d queue the file sharing site download links in jdownloader and let it automatically manage these downloads for you.
This sent me down memory lane, what happened to warez-bb!
> As there has been a question about updates. Those are not compromised, different infra, protected by end-2-end digital signature.
Phew!
From: https://old.reddit.com/r/jdownloader/comments/1t6goqe/is_the...
When will we finally sign artifacts?
I'm not only complaining, I also work on a solution (asfaload) that I want easy to use. As it is multisig, such platform breaches become impossible. Below is the doc of the CLI, i'm looking for testers and challengers of the solution!
https://asfaload.com/doc/
What's new? Hasn't JDownloader already served malware with the default installer for years, you had to use specific adware-free installers to avoid it?
https://board.jdownloader.org/showthread.php?t=54725
Here is a guide to debloat JDownloader
(https://claraiscute.neocities.org/Guides/jdownloader2/)
dark theme (https://github.com/moktavizen/material-darker-jdownloader)
Years ago I made my own "dark-ish mode" for it and holy hell, so annoying having to change 50 different more or less accurately labeled and named color settings that only take affect after restarting the program.
I’ve never run into a program that manages to disregard as many UX best practices as Jdownloader. It has more maddening features than I can count. Even stuff like sorting a column by date doesn’t work how you would want it to, because it applies some “package grouping”. It’s the epitome of nonsensical defaults, features that maybe 1% of the user base would want and care about but toggled on by default.
u/rubi2333 uploaded the malicious files to virustotal.com
JDownloader2Setup_windows-amd64_v1_8_0_482.exe: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/5a6636ce490789d7f26aaa86...
JDownloader2Setup_windows-amd64_v11_0_30.exe: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/fb1e3fe4d18927ff82cffb3f...
JDownloader2Setup_windows-amd64_v17_0_18.exe: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/04cb9f0bca6e0e4ed30bc927...
JDownloader2Setup_windows-amd64_v21_0_10.exe: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/32891c0080442bf0a0c5658a...
JDownloader2Setup_windows-x86_v1_8_0_472.exe: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/4ff7eec9e69b6008b77de1b6...
JDownloader2Setup_windows-x86_v11_0_29.exe: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/de8b2bdfc61d63585329b8cf...
JDownloader2Setup_windows-x86_v17_0_17.exe: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/e4a20f746b7dd19b8d9601b8...
JDownloader2Setup_unix_nojre.sh: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/6d975c05ef7a164707fa3592...
What? How would you know it was them?
Comparing the hashes would be one way