I remember when I was younger, Download managers were talked about as a preferable thing to have installed, so downloads would be handled consistently/faster, especially with slow and choppy internet back then.
I realized today, that I haven’t really used one in a long time on my phone.
What happened?
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Folks realized that most of them were malware or adware. And that they were never actually necessary.
Yep, ever since I saw them in popups on hosting sites or gatekeeping downloads behind some shady .exe, I’ve associated them with malware and adware.
Firefox still has a habit of failing on large files so I used Aria2 for a while, seemed to work better.
But generally downloading large files is more of a laptop job for me so I don’t really need it
Android? I’m know I’m old but the only time download managers were useful was when we used dial-up and unreliable internet connections. And Android was not around then.
I used GetRight at the end of the 90ies but it stopped being necessary when I got DSL. I never even used one on Android because it wasn’t needed.
Mobile internet is less slow and choppy now
