was flawed by good, now it's money hungry garbage. made an account just to leave this review out of anger. Don't waste your time with this.

It was great until they decided to make the free version completely useless by slapping a HUGE non transparent watermark on the downloaded video.

I do not recommend it.
I used this extension for many years and it worked quite well. Unfortunately, the extension has been recently updated.
Now, the free version is totally useless. It puts a huge, non-transparent watermark on the downloaded video.
The paid version, at least for me, is not worth the price.

It doesn't work, when I select the video it doesn't do anything.

install error

No longer free. Now adds a QR-code in a corner if you don't pay for the addon.

asks to download and install other app on laptop. Don't work without money. waste of time.

Das war's dann wohl. Scheint Probleme beim Download von Streams zu haben. Solch ein Video besteht nur noch aus groben Quadraten

Now its useless. From new version all downloads have huge QR code over video. Uninstalled.

All your downloads will have a huge QR code, plus you need to install an additional app to download. Not recommended at all.

なんかQRコードでできてクソ邪魔やったほかのレビューサクラだろ
タヒね

New update adds HUGE non transparent QR code to all downloads. I been using this add-on for years instant uninstall....

Requires external download "companion app".

Can't download anything without "Companion App" 100% garbage

Recently added an update that puts a completely non translucent qr code to the entire bottom quarter of any video saved. Used to recommend this to anyone and now it's an instant delete.

HORRIBLE. Every file has the same name, they do NOT download to the specified folder and I can't find them anywhere.

This video downloader was among the best with flawless downloading for non-streaming videos. But at least a week ago, every download attempt has been blocked into a "queued" status of nothing downloaded. Not sure if I'm throttled by this app when other apps allow downloading of the same videos.

Further, it is clunky for the local installation of the companion app to download streaming videos when other video downloading apps can download those streaming videos without any local installation.

Guess I will have to switch over to alternatives permanently.

P.S. Now I've been reading of the latest update that adds a QR code onto the downloaded video unless it's a paid version. No, ma'am. Found a very good alternative that I can download HLS streaming videos without any additional installation of app to my computer's local hard drive. Best of all, the downloading of the streaming videos doesn't take half the time that this extension's companion app that took forever (at least 25 minutes if not longer for a mere 40-minute video).

Sometimes, change is good to force one to find something else. Whatever Video Downloader did shoved me in the right direction.

Needs a companion app and then includes a paywalled watermark. Useless

I will not use nor trust any downloader that requires a companion app.

Era il miglior programma per scaricare, ora è il peggiore.Se non paghi il video scaricato avrà una filigrana e la cosa bella è che quando hai finito di scaricare ti appare un messaggio con scritto: "Se NOTERAI il video avrà una filigrana ...". Caspita, certo che ho NOTATO! la filigrana occupa un quarto dello schermo!! programma divenuto inguardabile e inutile, disinstallato.

Абсолютно хаотичный интерфейс: автоматом добавляет кучу всяких ссылок — не понятно, это уже закачивается или нет; наводишь на элемент управления, он тут же на что-то другое заменяется — из-за этого контролировать процесс загрузки невозможно; нажал скачать — полчаса прошло, загрузилось лишь 1 минута файла. Короче бред полный, а не скачивалка. Ах да, ещё требует установить какое-то внешнее приложение (на ваш страх и риск, естественно). В топку.

Keeps asking me to download a "Companion App" in order to download videos, and absolutely NOTHING about this is written in the extension description.

It leads you to their own website so you can download and install their app, which gives them access to you files and could be very dangerous. The purpose of extensions is exactly to contain their effects within the browser only, which is safer.

Feels extremely suspicious, and the fact that this is "recommended" sincerely strengthens my recent thoughts of abandoning Firefox altogether.

Very hard to see the video, hidden behind the huge waterstamp! Also the needed extra software, does not have a visible uninstaller - one has to search for that...