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justfoolingaround / patchidm

Steps and scripts to patch your Internet Download Manager license.
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include link for IDM's helper extension #1

Open ArjixWasTaken opened 1 month ago

ArjixWasTaken commented 1 month ago

It is a pain to temporarily disable the host rules, visit the article on IDM's website and then re-enable the host rules. Might as well directly link to the chrome extension in the README.

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/idm-integration-module/ngpampappnmepgilojfohadhhmbhlaek (The link was obtained from here)

ArjixWasTaken commented 1 month ago

If you want to obtain the link w/o temporarily unblocking the website, you can use curl to download the html of the article :)

curl --dns-servers 1.1.1.1 https://www.internetdownloadmanager.com/register/new_faq/chrome_extension.html > chrome_extension.html

The above may not work depending on your version of curl, you can instead do:

curl --resolve www.internetdownloadmanager.com:443:169.61.27.133 https://www.internetdownloadmanager.com/register/new_faq/chrome_extension.html > chrome_extension.html
ArjixWasTaken commented 1 month ago

Coming back to this, it baffles me how the developers of IDM are not directly contacting a DNS server to bypass the hosts file.

ArjixWasTaken commented 1 month ago

(yes, DNS servers could still be faked, even when using a direct IP, but still, it'd make this harder)