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cerbero: Speed up downloads on Windows drastically

Nirbheek Chauhan requested to merge nirbheek/cerbero:speed-up-invoke-webrequest into main

Apparently Invoke-WebRequest updates the progress bar for every byte, which makes downloads happen orders of magnitude slower than necessary. So let's disable the progress bar.

On my system, downloads that required minutes now happen instantly. This is now faster than the old urllib implementation too.

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