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I've been pirating my whole life in mobile and rarely in pc. What are some the best download managers to use in windows?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Jdownloader2 is a god send when dealing with crappy file hosters.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Came here to post this, but you beat me to it. Jdownloader is incredible and also works wonders for downloading massive collections from archive.org

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

How so? is it better than idm ?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

IDM only does direct downloads, or taking over downloads after waiting the timers or clicking the download button.

You can just give the download URL to JDownloader2, either direct or on a file host, and it will do the job. It supports many file hosts, which may be dealt differently from one to the other, such as needing timeouts, donwloading from folders, handling passwords (it would ask you for it), solving CAPTCHAs (it would also ask you for it), and so much more. Everything would be dealt and you get the file just from the URL you gave it. It's a versatile tool.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

JDownloader2 doesn't support chunkloading though (without a premium subscription), whereas IDM does

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Can't say if it is better per se, but it is multiplatform which is a requirement for me.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

If you mean general download managers, then IDM hands down. It's so good that I bought it just to support the devs. Then there's JDownloader 2 however it's quite heavy for everyday use. It is a must if you use debrid services though.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

If you mean direct download: JDownloader2

For torrents: QBittorrent

For usenet: SABnzbd

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Free Download Manager is okay for me for the occasional torrent i grab, otherwise its great for just downloading in general. (window only i think)

however most of my activity is in usenet/nzb and ive settled on nzbget for this work. I ran sabnzbd for a long time (and concurrently), but it seems that nzbget works for everything no probs.

Ive been out of the torrent game for a long while, and dont know the current status of projects like qtorrent.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Do you mean torrent clients? If so qBittorrent or BiglyBT are very good

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I have been using idm for as long as I can remember.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Thank you guys for the recommendations

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Vuze has always been good to me though I don't know if it is strictly "optimal."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I've been using Xtreme Download Manager for a long time. It's lightweight and has a browser extension, so it can easily intercept links. Some websites can't be easily intercepted by it, so I use JDownloader2 instead for that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Xtreme Download Manager

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Kget works pretty well for http downloads.
Use Qbittorrent for torrents

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I use Internet Download Manager and it has worked like a charm for me. It's paid, but you can find the pirated version easily!

I tried JDownloader but it didn't work for me, I'm kind of dumb though so it might have been my fault that it didn't work in my browser/computer.

Edit: wanted to add that for torrents I've been using Qbittorrent, imo it's the best

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I will try the pirated version for now

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

uuu now I wanna know all ur tricks op on mobile how you do it pls? recently discovered 1dm app.