Reviews for Video DownloadHelper
Video DownloadHelper by vdh
5,165 reviews
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 12919676, a month agoQR overlap a huge part of video, it's a garbage extension
- Rated 1 out of 5by Blop, 2 months agoOverlays an automatic English translation on the original soundtrack.
- Rated 1 out of 5by VaGo, 2 months agoWorks but it adds later a "Watermark" a BIG QR code of 1/6 video's size (giant)
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 19615829, 2 months agoUsed to be a wonderful, stable app - then "Sarah" or whoveer runs this app hijacked it with a pay to play scheme or be stuck with every download in German language and a QR code eating up a quarter of the screen. Real scumbag move...just in time for the holidays. Here's one star and a lump of metaphorical coal.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Роман, 2 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by кекуен, 2 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by SMR, 2 months agoIt appears this software does not download YouTube videos, based on my experience with version 9.5.0.2. I found that no videos were detected on YouTube pages.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18380993, 2 months agoNow it has paywall BOOM !!! of 30 dollars, and u have to pay more 19 dolllar if you want for chromium based browser, This trash is never seeing a cent from my pocket,
It's no more old video downloader helper, Hope FIrefox will remove this extension from their recommendation - Rated 1 out of 5by q66, 2 months agoexcellent module , pratique et efficace, le seul souci c'est que parfois la vidéo en français est traduite en anglais de manière inopportune, sinon pas de souci de téléchargement. Parfois au bout d'un certain nombre de téléchargements il n'est plus possible de continuer, cette limitation me "gâche le plaisir", dommage
- Rated 1 out of 5by The Red Pill, 2 months agoThe newly required Lifetime License fee to remove the QR code should be fairly priced at $4.99
The 'Red Pill' Reality: the 'engine' doing the heavy lifting (downloading & converting) is still just FFmpeg, which is free, open-source software built by volunteers. You are essentially paying $30 for lifetime access to a dashboard that drives a free car.
To be fair to the Developer: Paul and his team built a very polished Link Sniffer and a nice UI. They also updated the 'Companion App' to handle HLS streams smoothly. For a non-technical user, this convenience has some value.
Why $4.99 is the fair price: You are paying for the convenience of not using a command line. That is worth a cup of coffee ($5), not the price of a full premium indie video game ($30).
How to do it yourself for free (The steps they don't want you to know): If you have 5 minutes, you can replicate this 'Premium' functionality for $0:
Option A (Web-based & Clean): Use cobalt[dot]tools. Unlike other sites, it has NO ads and NO trackers. (Pro Tip: Smart users run uBlock Origin anyway, which makes the free web safer than many paid apps).
Option B (Power User):
Install 'The Stream Detector' (Firefox addon) to sniff the links just like this extension does.
Click it -> select 'Copy yt-dlp command'.
Paste that into your terminal with yt-dlp (free open source).
A premium UI but the 'magic' is free elsewhere. Save your money unless you are allergic to keyboards. - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 19571868, 2 months agoMit jedem verfluchten Firefox update geht die Registrierung flöten ... Ich habe schon bezahlt und werde es kein zweites mal tun ... Thema durch. entfernen fertig Ich hab da keinen Bock mehr drauf.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 19604544, 2 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18388137, 2 months agoI just hate the crappy and annoying humongous QR code watermark.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 19602292, 2 months agoWorks for a while then quits downloading but doesn't give a reason why. It just keeps saying download failed. Then it started demanding I buy a conversion license. Not wasting any more time with it.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Ottershop, 2 months agoCompletely useless. Had to install extra software just for it to work, and then once I'd done that, it slaps a massive QR code on the downloaded video.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Shike, 2 months agoHasn't been updated, but seems to have included a timed plan to spring on people to force payment with a QR code watermark now. Scammy crap.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Martín, 2 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by KayZ, 2 months agoComplete scam thanks to the recent ad and watermark rework.
If you had a patreon or Kofi I certainly would have chipped in a few dollars as thanks. But this makes it completely unusable. So no, screw you, and bring back the older version. - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13796962, 2 months agoI'm joining the ever increasing crowd of people downgrading their rating of this now useless app. Used to be great and easy to use. Then a watermark and conversion tool required at a price for high quality downloads. Lo-res was still available. Now you cannot download at any quality without the intrusive watermark. But the straw that broke the camel's back for me is that now every download is in German.
1 Star and happy to remove from my extentions. - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 19593655, 2 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Poopenshnapples, 2 months agoNot free. Adds a very large useless QR code box to videos
- Rated 1 out of 5by Norah, 2 months ago