The majority of file hosting sites on the Internet make use of wait times and download or bandwidth limits to either drive users into buying a premium account for faster downloading or to deliver more advertisements during that time. Download Helper is a new Opera extension that improves the downloading of files from specific file [...]

Categories: Browsing, Opera

Free users who want to download files from the file hosting service Depositfiles need to wait 60 seconds before they can download the first files. Additional time limits are added once a few downloads have been made. Some users help themselves by using download managers, such as JDownloader to download multiple files from Depositfiles or [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

Many websites, like many of the popular file hosting providers, display pages during the process of selecting a file for download and the actual downloading that are usually skipped by most of the users. Take the popular file hoster Rapidshare for example: They always display the free user / premium user page even after starting [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox