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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

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[–] Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 56 points 5 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 15 points 4 days ago

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

[–] zabadoh@ani.social 15 points 4 days ago

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