Does anyone know what’s up with that? Couldn’t find anything via Google. Seems really fishy to me.

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    Warning: I’m not sufficiently familiar with jdownloader to offer this explanation with any certainty, but…

    If you’re using it to rip streamed content, is it possible that instead of ripping the stream directly it screen records and re-encodes it itself in order to bypass end-to-end security features?

    I’m not saying that’s the case here, just that it’s a plausible explanation.

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    you … installed the JackassDownloader !!!

    maybe check your routers and pc’s dns settings, if you have a router from your provider, maybe its outdated as hell and jdownloaders updater got redirected by someone who hijacked it?

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      This is off topic to OP, but can you please elaborate on Jackass downloader comment? I’ve been using jD2 for literal years now and have yet to find an alternative that works as well, especially for a large amount of link crawls from a single clipboard. What is the issue with it, and what would your suggested alternative be?

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        JD2 is fine, nothing wrong with it. smb meant that op might have gotten his installation hijacked by an attack, essentially replacing his legit install with malware.

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      Router is my own and up to date. JDownloader is installed via flatpak, which I thought I could trust. Thanks to flatpak it also doesn’t have the ability to see anything else from my system.