GDLauncher VS Illegal-Mod-Sites

I used to use GDLauncher, but I would not recommend installing a launcher that lets issues like this one go by for almost a year without being fixed: https://github.com/gorilla-devs/GDLauncher/issues/1288

Skip all that manual install crap - https://prismlauncher.org/wiki/ or https://support.curseforge.com/en/support/solutions/articles/9000196904-creating-a-custom-profile or https://github.com/gorilla-devs/GDLauncher/wiki

Another way to make it easy, a bit less easy than the prior but a bit more customization - https://github.com/gorilla-devs/GDLauncher/wiki

The latest GDLauncher beta added an option to allow users to manually download problematic mods. You can get it here (click the Assets dropdown) or wait a few days for it to be released as a stable version.

I would have recommended GDLauncher until this happened to me last week: https://github.com/gorilla-devs/GDLauncher/issues/1288

Maybe give a different launcher a try, I use GDLauncher to run modpacks

maybe you could try GDlauncher it allows you to

Personally i use GdLauncher since it's really simple to use, it also automatically installs open jdk for you, something that basically makes the game run better than normal java, and can still manually download mods that have third-party downloads disabled.

Which other launchers could I use instead? – The shunted devs have established PlaceholderMC as a temporary official replacement. There's also ATLauncher, GDLauncher, and PolyMC itself was a fork of MultiMC.

There are a couple of sites hosting mods without authors permissions etc, sometimes claiming to have mods that don't even exist. Make sure to avoid all sites listed here: https://stopmodreposts.org/

See https://stopmodreposts.org/

Im aware of this site (https://stopmodreposts.org/) but I was wondering if any sites in the past had actually been taken down/removed, or removed specific mods upon authors requests.

Where to get mods? Most important bit first - https://stopmodreposts.org/ There's a lot of websites that claim to be hosting mods but are actually full of shit. They are lying about the mod, or worse, tricking people into downloading malware/viruses.

According to https://stopmodreposts.org/ - it is not safe.

Fighting them is kind of pointless since the owner is often in a country that doesn't care about copyright, and if they get removed from Google they'll just spin up a new site within a few hours. The best way to fight them is by teaching new members of the community to avoid them. https://stopmodreposts.org/

Yeah... stay away from whatever website that is. You should generally only get your mods from CurseForge or Modrinth. The overwhelming vast majority of other sites are illegal reposts (https://stopmodreposts.org/).