Privacybeleid

GolinksPRO Download Manager ("GDM") is free, open-source software made by DIGITAL KREATIF. Because GolinksPRO Download Manager is open source, every network connection described here can be verified directly.

De app

Wat op uw computer blijft

Uw downloadlijst, instellingen, aanmeldingen die u opslaat in Siteaanmeldingen, de geschiedenis van elke download en de bestanden die u downloadt, worden alleen op uw computer opgeslagen: in %APPDATA%\misterdownloadmanager op Windows (of de map data van de draagbare versie), en in de gebruikelijke map voor applicatiegegevens op macOS en Linux. Er wordt niets geüpload. Bij het verwijderen wordt aangeboden om ze te wissen. Vanaf versie 0.5.0 worden de wachtwoorden van Siteaanmeldingen, de proxy- en debrid-accounts in plaats daarvan in de sleutelhanger van het systeem geplaatst (Windows Referentiebeheer, de sleutelhanger op Linux, de macOS-sleutelhanger), nog steeds op uw computer, wanneer deze aanwezig en ontgrendeld is.

Met wie de app communiceert, en waarom

• The servers you download from. To download a file, GDM connects to the server that holds it and sends what any browser would: the request, and the cookies, referrer and browser identification the extension passed along, so downloads that need you to be signed in keep working. Those servers see your IP address, as they would if your browser downloaded the file.
• Your proxy, if you set one in Options → Proxy / Socks, and your network's proxy auto-config script, if you point GDM at one.
• Updates server, to check for updates. Each time it starts, and once a day while it stays open, GDM checks for the latest release of GDM. The request carries GDM's version in its User-Agent and nothing else. Turn the check off in Help → Check for updates (Check for updates at every start).
• GitHub, for video helpers. If you use Download video from a page, GDM downloads yt-dlp (and ffmpeg, if you want merged qualities) from their official releases, checks them, and once per session asks whether yt-dlp has a newer release. yt-dlp then talks to the video site you asked for, as your browser would.
• Torrent peers and trackers. When you download a torrent, GDM connects to the trackers listed in the torrent, to the BitTorrent DHT network and to other peers, who see your IP address and which pieces you have. To accept connections it may ask your router to open a port (UPnP). This is how BitTorrent works; it ends when the torrent stops.
• Your AI assistant, only if you connect one. GDM's MCP server (misterdownloadmanager-mcp) talks only to the GDM on your computer. But if you add it to an AI assistant (Claude, Cursor, VS Code…) and turn on the automation API, the assistant can read your download list, and what it reads (file names, addresses, folders) goes to that assistant's AI service, under its privacy terms. Nothing of this happens unless you set it up; see AI assistants.

Vanaf versie 0.5.0, alleen als u ze kiest:

• The DNS you choose. With a DNS other than the system's in Options → Connection → DNS (Cloudflare, Google, Quad9, AdGuard, NextDNS or your own), GDM asks it, over HTTPS, TLS or TCP, for the addresses of the servers it downloads from. That service sees those names and your IP address, under its own privacy terms.
• Uw debrid-accounts. Een link of torrent die u via een Real-Debrid-, AllDebrid- of Premiumize-account in Opties → Accounts verzendt, gaat naar die service, die vervolgens het bestand levert. Uw aanmelding blijft op uw computer, met de bovengenoemde wachtwoorden.
• Codeberg, for gallery-dl. If you download an image gallery, GDM installs gallery-dl from its official releases on Codeberg and checks its author's signature; gallery-dl then talks to the site you asked for.
• A torrent IP blocklist, if you give one: GDM fetches it from the address you entered, again every 7 days.
• Your own devices, for the remote control. Off until you turn it on in Options → Remote: then GDM answers, over HTTPS on your local network, only the phones and computers you paired with its code.

The server's country that Download File Info and the progress window show comes from a table inside GDM: no address is sent anywhere to look it up.

GDM has no analytics, no automatic crash reporting, no telemetry and no advertising (a crash report goes only where you send it yourself). It never sends us your download list, the addresses you download, or anything else.

Een probleem melden

Help → Report a problem opens GitHub's bug report form in your browser with GDM's version, your system and its version, how GDM was installed and your language filled in. Nothing is sent until you choose to submit it on GitHub, where it becomes public; read it before you post.

De automatiserings-API

The automation API is off by default. When you turn it on, it listens only on 127.0.0.1 (your own computer) and answers only programs that present the secret token from GDM's data folder.

De browserextensie

The GolinksPRO Download Manager extension for Chrome, Edge, Brave, Opera, Vivaldi and Firefox:

• When you start a download that GDM should take, it passes the download's address (and where its redirects led), the page it came from, the site's cookies for that address, your browser's User-Agent, and the file's name, size and type to GDM on your computer, through the browser's native-messaging channel. Nothing goes over the internet.
• Once you switch on Send downloads through this browser's proxy or VPN extension in its popup (Firefox asks you first), when the browser uses a proxy for a download (set by a VPN or proxy extension, or in its settings), the extension passes the proxy's address, or its proxy auto-config script, so GDM downloads through the same proxy. It never reads or passes the proxy's login. It notes only that a proxy asked for one, so GDM can tell you it can't use that proxy. Switched off (as installed), it reads nothing of the browser's proxy.
• When a download comes from a form you submitted, it passes the form's data too, so GDM can submit it again. It notes the data of forms you submit (in memory, used for two minutes at most, never stored) only for that.
• It notes the addresses of video streams (HLS and DASH playlists) a page's player loads, in memory for that tab, so the Download video button can pass the stream on. Its button reads the page only to find video and sound players and place itself. Clicking it passes the page's address, the video's address, the page's title, the site's cookies, the page that embeds the player and your browser's User-Agent to GDM.
• Download selected links and Download all links read the links of the page (or of your selection) when you choose them, and pass them to GDM with the page's address and its site's cookies.
• It notes where page loads' redirects started and ended (in memory, for two minutes), so GDM gets the address you clicked, not only where it led.
• Een klein script op elke pagina noteert alleen de links waarop u klikt terwijl u Alt ingedrukt houdt, zodat die downloads bij de browser blijven; de adressen worden enkele seconden in het geheugen bewaard.
• Every message to GDM also says which browser it comes from (its name, as the browser tells it) and the extension's version.
• It stores its own settings (paused or not, GDM's file types and excluded sites, its connection status, where you dragged the video button on each of the last 200 sites; nothing from private windows) in the browser's extension storage, on your computer.
• Het heeft geen externe code, geen analyses en geen advertenties, en stuurt niets naar ons of iemand anders.

Its permissions, and why: downloads to see and hand over downloads; cookies so signed-in downloads work in GDM; nativeMessaging to talk to GDM; contextMenus for the right-click items; storage for its settings; webRequest to see forms submitted and video streams loaded (it changes nothing); declarativeNetRequestWithHostAccess (Chrome, Edge and other Chromium browsers) to have the files the browser would open (a PDF) downloaded instead, for the types GDM takes; in Firefox, webRequestBlocking does that; scripting to read a page's links when you ask, and to add the video button to pages already open when the extension is installed; proxy to read which proxy the browser uses, so downloads taken from a browser behind a VPN or proxy extension go through it too, only while you have that switched on in the popup (it never changes the browser's proxy; in Firefox it is optional, asked for when you switch it on; Chrome and the other Chromium browsers can't make it optional, and count it under the access to all sites); access to all sites because downloads and videos can come from any site.

Deze website

golinkspro-download-manager.web.app is a static site.

• Firebase Hosting hosts it. Google Firebase receives your IP address and browser details when you visit and may keep them in its server logs for security.
• Cloudflare staat voor de site: elke aanvraag passeert zijn netwerk, dat uw IP-adres en browsergegevens ziet, de site beschermt tegen aanvallen en hiervoor een cookie kan plaatsen. Zie het privacybeleid van Cloudflare.
• Statcounter telt bezoeken, zodat we weten welke pagina's mensen lezen en waar ze vandaan komen. Het script registreert de pagina die u opent, de pagina die ernaar linkte, uw browser, systeem en schermgrootte, en uw geschatte locatie op basis van uw IP-adres, en plaatst een cookie om nieuwe bezoekers van terugkerende te onderscheiden. Wij zien deze als statistieken in het dashboard van Statcounter; we gebruiken ze niet om u te identificeren, en we verkopen of delen ze niet. Zie het privacybeleid van Statcounter. Het blokkeren van cookies of scripts voor statcounter.com in uw browser, of een contentblocker, houdt u buiten de telling; de site werkt hetzelfde.

De site heeft geen advertenties en geen andere trackers. De lettertypen en scripts worden vanaf de site zelf geleverd. Uw keuze voor de lichte of donkere modus wordt onthouden in de lokale opslag van uw browser en nooit ergens naartoe gestuurd.

Kinderen

De app en de extensie verzamelen geen persoonlijke gegevens van wie dan ook, inclusief kinderen. De bezoekenteller van de website weet niet wie u bent of hoe oud u bent.

Uw rechten

The app and the extension hold no personal data about you, so there is nothing for us to show, correct or delete there. The website's visit statistics are held by Statcounter.

Wijzigingen

If GDM or this website ever needs to use a new service, this page will say so first, and the change will be listed in What's new.

Vragen

See our Troubleshooting guide for support and answers to common questions.