Reviews for Shinigami Eyes
Shinigami Eyes by Shinigami Eyes
Review by LookingForLoo
Rated 1 out of 5
by LookingForLoo, 7 months agoWanted to write a longer review but the character limit got me, so my main points are:
- Responding with "examine your behavior" and "intersex people are welcome so long as they don't align themselves with TERFs(which in this context means "correctly use a term intersex people came up with to explain their experiences and identities" and is not, in fact, actually aligning oneself with TERFs)" when people point out that your extension is being used to harm innocent marginalized people is unacceptable. Given how much of our lives are online and how much violence, harassment, and ostracization an anti-trans marking invites you absolutely need to have a real solution to people using SE as a weapon. If you can't come up with a solution then I mean this in all seriousness, you need to take this down until you can. I say this as a trans person, the pros in no way outweigh the cons, and it's WELL past time y'all did something about this.
- While SE is helpful in some cases(flagging celebrities, news sources, and other organizations) it has always been exploitable and thus if you do use it, see it as a suggestion, not as an inherently concrete or factual stamp of dis/approval, especially when it comes to individuals. Being able to think critically and understand ideologies and beliefs *on your own* is a vital skill to have. If you use SE you should investigate any people you see marked either way for yourself to decide if they are actually transphobic or not, because recognizing general transphobia as well as transphobia directed at trans women, trans men, nonbinary people, and how it changes based on race, as well as TERF/radfem rhetoric and dogwhistles and, critically, tell the difference between all that and legitimate language/theory used by trans and intersex people is something you should absolutely be able to do yourself if you want to be a good trans ally and forward the cause of trans liberation.
- It is really fucking weird of y'all to rightfully say that Pepe the Frog emotes/memes are alt-right dogwhistles and thus transphobic while claiming "theyfab" a slur made up by alt-right trolls on 4Chan to harm nonbinary people is "out of scope" like?? Make it make sense. Either all transphobia is bad or you don't think nonbinary people count as trans and so violence against them is fine, which is it.
- My faith in this extension continues to tank for ever person I see who is marked green despite having radfem in their bio and regularly interacting with actual self-identified TERFs. Radical feminism is always, ALWAYS transphobic and absolutely no one who claims to be a radfem should ever be marked as trans-friendly under any circumstances. It seems to a lot of the users of this extension that it's okay if blatant transphobia comes out of the right kind of trans person's mouth phrased the right way. And ofc I know this extension does require constant input to function, so I mark these people as red, but they stay green. The standard of what is considered transphobic by the people who use and maintain this extension is really strange, and I say that as someone who has been fighting radical feminism online for over 15 years. It's okay if someone is an open radfem, who spouts gender essentialist bs about the inherent evils of men and virtues of women so long as they include trans people in their nonsense, but intersex trans people trying to use a label they coined and nonbinary folks who would like to not be called slurs are treated like the problem?
This extension isn’t trustworthy atm and honestly even if it was working properly I would still say you should only use it if you're willing and able to vet people yourself. The path of queer and trans liberation is one you must be proactive in pursuing, blind trust, on the other hand, is oppression's favorite tool and it will get you absolutely nowhere.
- Responding with "examine your behavior" and "intersex people are welcome so long as they don't align themselves with TERFs(which in this context means "correctly use a term intersex people came up with to explain their experiences and identities" and is not, in fact, actually aligning oneself with TERFs)" when people point out that your extension is being used to harm innocent marginalized people is unacceptable. Given how much of our lives are online and how much violence, harassment, and ostracization an anti-trans marking invites you absolutely need to have a real solution to people using SE as a weapon. If you can't come up with a solution then I mean this in all seriousness, you need to take this down until you can. I say this as a trans person, the pros in no way outweigh the cons, and it's WELL past time y'all did something about this.
- While SE is helpful in some cases(flagging celebrities, news sources, and other organizations) it has always been exploitable and thus if you do use it, see it as a suggestion, not as an inherently concrete or factual stamp of dis/approval, especially when it comes to individuals. Being able to think critically and understand ideologies and beliefs *on your own* is a vital skill to have. If you use SE you should investigate any people you see marked either way for yourself to decide if they are actually transphobic or not, because recognizing general transphobia as well as transphobia directed at trans women, trans men, nonbinary people, and how it changes based on race, as well as TERF/radfem rhetoric and dogwhistles and, critically, tell the difference between all that and legitimate language/theory used by trans and intersex people is something you should absolutely be able to do yourself if you want to be a good trans ally and forward the cause of trans liberation.
- It is really fucking weird of y'all to rightfully say that Pepe the Frog emotes/memes are alt-right dogwhistles and thus transphobic while claiming "theyfab" a slur made up by alt-right trolls on 4Chan to harm nonbinary people is "out of scope" like?? Make it make sense. Either all transphobia is bad or you don't think nonbinary people count as trans and so violence against them is fine, which is it.
- My faith in this extension continues to tank for ever person I see who is marked green despite having radfem in their bio and regularly interacting with actual self-identified TERFs. Radical feminism is always, ALWAYS transphobic and absolutely no one who claims to be a radfem should ever be marked as trans-friendly under any circumstances. It seems to a lot of the users of this extension that it's okay if blatant transphobia comes out of the right kind of trans person's mouth phrased the right way. And ofc I know this extension does require constant input to function, so I mark these people as red, but they stay green. The standard of what is considered transphobic by the people who use and maintain this extension is really strange, and I say that as someone who has been fighting radical feminism online for over 15 years. It's okay if someone is an open radfem, who spouts gender essentialist bs about the inherent evils of men and virtues of women so long as they include trans people in their nonsense, but intersex trans people trying to use a label they coined and nonbinary folks who would like to not be called slurs are treated like the problem?
This extension isn’t trustworthy atm and honestly even if it was working properly I would still say you should only use it if you're willing and able to vet people yourself. The path of queer and trans liberation is one you must be proactive in pursuing, blind trust, on the other hand, is oppression's favorite tool and it will get you absolutely nowhere.
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- Rated 1 out of 5by angel, 11 hours ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by bogstandard, a day ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Ash the Yggdrasil, a day agoHello. I am transfeminine. I ask you read this review before continuing to read any others.
Many of the people rating this as "five stars" claim transmisogyny and "review bombing."
It is not review bombing. Most, if not all, of the one-star reviews are valid concerns and I have witness the things the one-star reviews are talking about with my own eyes. The people giving out one star reviews are not being transmisogynist. The fact that my own sisters in the trans community will claim such of people actually having grievances and struggles of their own appalls and disgusts me.
Most of the one-star reviews are discussing experiencing "transandrophobia," intersexism, and even racism at the hands of the developers of this extension. They speak of many people being completely, unfairly, and unjustly marked red, and I have seen this happening more and more often, and I find more and more people being marked green purely on the basis of being a trans woman.
This is actually a one-star review, but I wanted to put this here to challenge the people in the 5-star section having the disgusting gall to call our trans siblings "transmisogynist" for the mere fact that they are not trans women themselves.
And if one such reviewer is reading this...
Do better. I know you can. Fix your hearts. - Rated 1 out of 5by Yarg ThSecond, 2 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Julia, 2 days agoThis extension works perfectly; I have yet to see someone be marked incorrectly by it. Many people who get marked red get pissy about it and claim to be "incorrectly" marked red, but I have yet to see one who actually treats transgender women with a modicum of respect.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Galius, 3 days agoTransfem here, thought the plug-in was useful and was pretty enthusiastic about it, but a quick glance at the reviews has soured our opinion on it. Based on everything being said, we can't believe that this is just "review bombing" or genuine cases of everyone being marked being genuinely "transphobic and trans."
And yeah, unjustified hate against others in our community actually just hurts us too, girlies, funny how that works. It actually just imposes more rules and guidelines on how we're allowed to express ourselves and live, just that it comes from "our own side" this time.
Anyways yeah, sadly wouldn't recommend this plugin, end of story. - Rated 1 out of 5by taylor, 3 days agoUsed to be actually useful but I guess most of the people who care enough to use the "tag as anti/pro-trans" feature are just discourse-rotted terminally online people who mistag people who literally Aren't transphobic as anti-trans. What a dissapointment.
- Rated 2 out of 5by laser-rat, 3 days agoshinigami eyes used to be a very good tool, but lately i've noticed a Lot of trans-supportive (and even themselves trans) intersex activists falsely marked as red. at first i thought these were just a few isolated incidents, but it just keeps happening. if you do decide to use this add-on, make sure to check if the blogs that are marked red are actually transphobic or not, since it's unfortunately not as reliable anymore as it used to be. personally i am going to stop using it for the time being because this is just getting ridiculous
- Rated 1 out of 5by Kal, 4 days agoThis extension used to be quite good. It was very helpful in determining whether a site or a user was safe to be openly trans on, but recently it has taken a nosedive. Trans friendly blogs are repeatedly being marked as anti trans simply because the person running said blog is either intersex, a sex worker, or trans masc. This is an issue that has been brought up numerous times, and yet nothing has been fixed.
I don't recommend using this extension. - Rated 5 out of 5by Harley, 4 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by sciencings, 4 days agoDamn shame this extension is no longer usable. Used to be great, but now "being trans the wrong way" is transphobic, I guess?
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18524606, 5 days agoshinigami eyes taken over by transphobes, cant have shit in detroit
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 19102723, 5 days agoWhen this extension was first out, it was a huge help in finding trans and non-binary users and knowing what were safe spaces for folks like us. Lately there has been a concerning uptick of trans-men users and nonbinary users being marked as "transphobic" for simply talking about their experiences online. Unless Shinigami Eyes finds a way to not be discriminatory to our trans and nonbinary siblings, I can't continue supporting this extension
- Rated 1 out of 5by sessena, 6 days agoRecently there has been a truly concerning uptick in trans-masculine people being marked as transphobic. I checked the blogs this applied to that I saw and none of them had said anything transphobic at all that I could see, the opposite. Most of them were actively discussing intersectionality in a nuanced way that did not show any hostility toward other trans people.
I can only assume there are some very petty and sad people targeting these people and to them I say, please stop this nonsense. This way the extension unfortunately has become unusable to figure out anything about someone's trans-friendliness - Rated 1 out of 5by Angel, 7 days agoI've had this extension installed for many years, but in recent months, every page I've seen flagged anti-trans, with the exception of exactly one violently hateful one and its content, and things like, say, the Wikipedia page for JKR, has been a trans and/or intersex person who uplifts trans voices and practices extensive advocacy - the exact definition of what the extension guidelines define as pro-trans - who also discusses and uplifts intersex issues and voices. Meanwhile, genuine TERFs fly under the radar or are even marked pro-trans. It simply is not sufficiently effective for the purpose it was meant for anymore.
- Rated 5 out of 5by lilly_dreemurr, 8 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18977790, 9 days agoI just kept seeing blogs marked as anti-trans, even though the blogs in question were all about supporting nonbinary identities and didn't have any content that could be considered anti-trans. Even worse, from the shinigami eyes website: "While your overrides are immediately visible to you, changes are included in the publicly visible dataset only if they pass some trustworthiness criteria (including human validation)." What this tells me: people are marking nonbinary people/identities as "anti-trans", and whoever is looking at those reports is either agreeing with them or not paying attention. At least, that's what it looks like. Either way, there's too many cases of blogs being falsely marked as anti-trans, whatever the reason may be, which makes this extension useless.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 19088054, 10 days agoi used to use this for several years... come to find out now the extensions used for targeted harrassment of trans men + marking intersex as anti trans for additional harrassment. seriously?
- Rated 1 out of 5by Spook, 11 days agoI have been a devout Shinigami Eyes user since the very beginning, but lately there has been a consistent uptick in people using it to target and harass people of the trans and queer community which I just can't abide by. Every tool that is used to help trans people is ultimately co-opted by bad faith interlopers and this is just another run of it. Until this gets addressed this extension is useless and a tool of the enemy. Anyone using this should remove it because right now they have made it completely useless putting fellow trans people against one another and putting them in the same category as people like Charlie Kirk, Jesse Waters, Marjorie Taylor Greene, etc all for speaking out against certain racist and misogynistic viewpoints within the trans community and the non-trans community widely.
- Rated 1 out of 5by juncobird, 11 days agoThis extension was useful several years ago, but now it's used to dismiss and attack transmasculine people, intersex people, and transfeminine people who speak up for their transmasc and intersex peers. It does not mark actual transmisogynists or transphobes as red, and is now less than useless.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 19084193, 12 days agoThis used to be a great extension, until it became weaponized by transphobes, especially against trans men, and used to harass intersex folks. The developers are part of the problem and actively propagate the issue.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Amata, 13 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Pollyanna, 13 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by cryptsoup, 18 days agoThis is not a review bomb score out of spite, but an earnest and heartbroken attempt to be honest here. I really did like Shinigami Eyes when it was primarily about marking institutions, or just users in general who are genuinely transphobic and wish harm to the entire trans community. It was an indicator to block these people so that they do not perform harmful actions against you, such as doxxing, which is uniquely harmful to trans people since it can out them to their families. It has helped me in the past to block some truly rancid individuals.
And now we're seeing a rise in false flagging against actual trans and intersex people as a means to harass them. In my opinion, while it is entirely possible for trans people to have internalized transphobia, this is extending far beyond the pale. It should not be necessary for me to personally act as a moderator and spend hours unflagging trans people who care deeply about supporting the community and who are themselves vulnerable and in need of support.
We're in an age of sliding backwards into conservatism and we need each other more than ever. This app is no longer serving to protect us. It's gotten to a point where asking for peace and solidarity is enough to be marked as red. If you don't see the problem with this, I implore you to look harder. - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 17157829, 18 days agoThis plugin is no longer useful as it has been weaponized against non-feminine presenting trans people.