JDownloader: Is It Secure?

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Good morning,

I’ve been trying to find information on this for a long time as I desperately need an App that I can trust to download videos from websites.

Does anyone have experience with this?

I know it’s open source, but since it’s free I was thinking I may be safer if I use a paid and closed source App?

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I searched the community and didn’t find any discussions so it’d be GREAT to hear what the experts here think!

Thank you for reading my question.

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I don’t know about this app, but to download videos from the internet I recommend yt-dlp or any app based on this library. It is pretty good, reliable, fast and battle-tested.

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The code is partially open source (according to wikipedia), therefore only the reviewable code is potentially secure (assuming people review the code).

I think the yt-dlp also has the ability to download videos from other sites as well.

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I think the yt-dlp also has the ability to download videos from other sites as well.

Yes, it does.

For a graphical interface, try something like Video Downloader.

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Sorry but what kind of logic is that?

Otherwise, as others said, the most popular option is yt-dlp and its front-ends.