JDownloader2 asking for donations to keep it "free of advertising" while showing an ad on the same screen

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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I wrote a blog post about how to remove the ads and enable dark mode for JDownloder2 here.
- 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.
- You can also get it to use your KDE theme if that is more your thing
  Edit: gtk theme, not kde
  
  How?
Well, they are still the most versatile download tool in existence... And not like you guys are downloading legal stuff with that
- JDownloader is a tool whose continued development is well worth supporting.
- Yup.
  The annoyance from dealing with those crappy file hosters alone is enough to send them a couple bucks.
Jdownloader2.
Everyone has that one asshole friend. He's ours.
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 personally use AB Download Manager. It isn't as good as jdownload but work good enough for me.
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.
- It doesn't have ads on linux. I like it.
  
  I still don't trust it given what the devs have done and how they responded to the community.
- WiiU homebrew?
  
  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.
- What about bpftp? (Bullet proof ftp) maybe someone made an open sourxe version
  
  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.
Why not use free download manager instead?
- 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?
  
  I'm not sure about Click'nLoad or Debrid, but aria2 does all the other things you just listed.
  
  I do not know the answer to some of your questions, but it can handle download links directly from the browser
  
  Try Brave.
Recently set up pyload, it‘s good for what it does. Or are there any pitfalls I don‘t know yet? :)
- No clickn load sadly, otherwise works fine
- Its not though, they are different platforms for very different types of downloads.
- Hardly an alternative. JD is a http auto downloader, QB is a torrent downloader.
- that's a completely different thing
- How is a torrent client an alternative to a download manager?

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