Reviews for Return YouTube Dislike
Return YouTube Dislike by Dmitry Selivanov
4,381 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Kamik, 19 hours ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12720423, a day agoDoes what it claims well. Everyone who's freaking about the permissions change needs to calm down and go read up on it more. It's not doing anything nefarious/different. It's not spying on everything you do. It's not saving your youtube info.
You can go into extensions settings and view permissions for an extension in Firefox and it shows you the sites/urls that the extension is allowed to operate on. If it's not listed there, then Firefox itself won't allow the extension to access information on other sites.
Scroll down and read comments from the developer which have more complete information on what actually happened.Developer response
posted 18 hours agoThanks for taking the time to leave a review and explain the permissions.
RYD hasn’t changed how it handles your data. What changed is how Mozilla labels these permissions - not what the extension does with your data.
Here’s the same problem discussed by Ajay, the author of SponsorBlock and DeArrow:
https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/the-new-data-transmission-permissions-seem-to-be-misleading-to-users/149410
RYD only uses the data it needs to show dislikes and count votes.
Its site permissions cover YouTube and its own API at returnyoutubedislikeapi.com. RYD doesn’t read other websites, and these site permissions cannot be used to access them.
Here’s what those permissions mean:
Personally identifiable information - RYD’s randomly generated, anonymous user ID, used to count votes. This isn’t your Google or YouTube account.
Browsing activity - opening the next YouTube video, so the extension can send its video ID and fetch the new dislike count.
Website content - things like the visible like count, which helps calculate dislike estimates.
Website activity - clicking Like or Dislike.
Again, this is about YouTube activity. The extension isn’t watching everything you do across the internet - it simply can’t do that with these site permissions.
The new labels can sound worrying, but they don’t give the extension access to more websites.
RYD is open source, so you can see how it works: https://github.com/Anarios/return-youtube-dislike - Rated 5 out of 5by SilverGuy, 4 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by dan9, 6 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17646948, 8 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by mlatpren, 9 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Benjamin, 11 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by grous, 12 days agoNice extension. People complaining about donation messages (which i haven't saw on my system) can maintain their own extension and pay its infrastructure costs instead of complaining. It is a free extension for sake. also Glory to Ukraine
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15676080, 12 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by WorstthanKaizer, 13 days agoJust wanted to say thank you for creating this extension and still supporting it to this day, its always been great for me! Weather im on firefox or a chromium based browser it works wonders.
- Rated 5 out of 5by privacyiskey669, 13 days agoI was scared for those permissions needed so i looked into it, Turns out the addon dev is right its Mozilla its just really poorly named
More info can be found here
discourse.mozilla.org/t/the-new-data-transmission-permissions-seem-to-be-misleading-to-users/Developer response
posted 13 days agoThanks for taking the time to look into the permissions and share what you found.
RYD hasn’t changed how it handles your data. What changed is how Mozilla labels these permissions - not what the extension does with your data.
The extension only uses the data it needs to display dislikes and count votes.
Its site permissions cover YouTube and its own API at returnyoutubedislikeapi.com. RYD doesn’t read other websites, and these site permissions cannot be used to access them.
Here’s what those permissions mean:
Personally identifiable information - RYD’s randomly generated, anonymous user ID, used to count votes. This isn’t your Google or YouTube account.
Browsing activity - opening the next YouTube video, so the extension can send its video ID and fetch the new dislike count.
Website content - things like the visible like count, which helps calculate dislike estimates.
Website activity - clicking Like or Dislike.
Again, this is about YouTube activity. The extension isn’t watching everything you do across the internet - it simply can’t do that with these site permissions.
The new labels sound scary, but they don’t let the extension access any additional websites.
RYD is open source, so you can see how it works: https://github.com/Anarios/return-youtube-dislike - Rated 5 out of 5by nonotapierson, 14 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by bruh, 14 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Kaine, 14 days agoThe new permission request surprised me at first, but after reading the developer's explanation, it makes total sense. It sounds scarier than it actually is, and that's on Mozilla, not the developer. There's no need to be paranoid (it's open source, so you can check the code yourselves!)
Thanks for being transparent about the permissions and keeping the extension updated.Developer response
posted 14 days agoThanks for the kind words and for taking the time to read the explanation.
RYD hasn’t changed how it handles your data. What changed is how Mozilla labels these permissions - not what the extension does with your data.
RYD uses only the data needed to display dislikes and count votes.
Its site permissions cover YouTube and its own API at returnyoutubedislikeapi.com. RYD doesn’t read other websites, and these site permissions cannot be used to access them.
Here’s what those permissions mean:
Personally identifiable information - RYD’s randomly generated, anonymous user ID, used to count votes. This isn’t your Google or YouTube account.
Browsing activity - opening the next YouTube video, so the extension can send its video ID and fetch the new dislike count.
Website content - things like the visible like count, which helps calculate dislike estimates.
Website activity - clicking Like or Dislike.
Again, this is about YouTube activity. The extension isn’t watching everything you do across the internet - it simply can’t do that with these site permissions.
The new labels can sound scary, but they don’t expand the set of websites the extension can access.
RYD is open source, so you can see how it works: https://github.com/Anarios/return-youtube-dislike - Rated 5 out of 5by eX-Rayted, 14 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Chulup, 14 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by i can't read, 14 days agoWhen I first saw the extension requiring "new" permissions like PII, the first thing I did was check the reviews if anyone had any information on why these new perms were required and if it'd be better to uninstall.
I was not expecting that person to be the developer of the extension, with a full in-depth explanation of why each new perm was needed, if the extension was trusted, and information on why the permissions were rebranded.
This is the first time I've EVER seen a developer take the time to read negative reviews, explain, and attempt to help with any issues. I've been using this extension for a while, and I could tell this project was difficult to maintain just based on how it was made.
You are perhaps the greatest developer I've seen purely for actually listening to what people had to say and addressing the constant 1 star reviews with actual notes. I created an account purely to say that this extension has been great for quite a while now, and keeping servers alive with little monetization, pushing out updates, taking time to read feedback, addressing questions, it's all extremely impressive and genuinely makes me want to support the project. Cheers mate.Developer response
posted 14 days agoThanks for the kind words and for taking the time to share them.
RYD hasn’t changed how it handles your data. What changed is how Mozilla labels these permissions - not what the extension does with your data.
The extension uses only the data it needs to show dislikes and count votes.
Its site permissions cover YouTube and its own API at returnyoutubedislikeapi.com. RYD doesn’t read other websites, and these site permissions cannot be used to access them.
Here’s what those permissions mean:
Personally identifiable information - RYD’s randomly generated, anonymous user ID, used to count votes. This isn’t your Google or YouTube account.
Browsing activity - opening the next YouTube video, so the extension can send its video ID and fetch the new dislike count.
Website content - things like the visible like count, which helps calculate dislike estimates.
Website activity - clicking Like or Dislike.
Again, this is about YouTube activity. The extension isn’t watching everything you do across the internet - it simply can’t do that with these site permissions.
The new labels sound scary, but they don’t give the extension access to more websites.
RYD is open source, so you can see how it works: https://github.com/Anarios/return-youtube-dislike - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 20160975, 16 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19722038, 16 days agoHow is this still working? I thought recently youtube removed dislikes in their backend.
Developer response
posted 16 days agoThey did, about 4 years ago, we have to keep our own "parallel" servers to YouTube. - Rated 5 out of 5by RoyalCat, 16 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by ycx, 16 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Immersion, 16 days agoSucks the extension is getting reviewed bombed for something small, I would just prefer to have the dislike button work on private windows also
- Rated 5 out of 5by DwarfyAssassin, 17 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Tomas Nylen, 17 days ago