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JDownloader2 asking for donations to keep it "free of advertising" while showing an ad on the same screen
(feddit.org)
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 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.
I personally use AB Download Manager. It isn't as good as jdownload but work good enough for me.