I found it confusing at times and a bit over bearing. It wanted to pop up for each and every download. I prefer it to come up only when I request it.
Yes, the latter was very much the same issue I had with it. I want a program like this to come when it is summoned, but not to intrude otherwise. Automatic interception of every possible download is not acceptable. Back when I last tried Ant DL, a company rep said that this was able to be controlled via program settings — which to a varying extent seemed to be the case. Peter Blaise also reports that improvements to this program behavior have been made, which inclines me to give it another try.