Reviews for Stylish - Custom themes for any website
Stylish - Custom themes for any website by userstyles.org
Review by rdela
Rated 1 out of 5
by rdela, 2 years ago2022-11-08
> In September 2016 Jason Barnabe, the creator of Stylish and userstyles.org, announced that, having lost interest in the project, he had "chosen Justin Hindman as the next leader of Stylish and userstyles.org." Hindman had no prior connection to either Stylish or userstyles.org, and it soon became clear that Barnabe had simply sold them to Hindman in a straw purchase for Israeli analytics company SimilarWeb.
> In December 2016 Hindman began releasing updates to Stylish for Chrome which returned a perfect replica of the user's browsing activity to Userstyles. On 3 January 2017 he announced a "partnership" with SimilarWeb in which "Stylish users [would] be joining SimilarWeb’s market research panel.". A Firefox web extension (3.0.1) was released on 10 November, after a final update (2.1.1) to the Stylish XUL+XPCOM add-on on 31 October to migrate user styles to a webextension-compatible database.
> In July 2018, after these issues were publicized by a software engineer, Stylish was pulled from both the Chrome Web Store and Mozilla Add-ons, as well as being automatically uninstalled for all existing users. Stylish returned to Mozilla Add-ons on 16 August and to the Chrome Web Store on 5 November with the same logic but sporting a new opt-in page asking users to agree to the data collection when the extension was installed. Both platforms continue to report more users of Stylish than of its most popular alternative, Stylus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stylish#Privacy_issues
As other reviewers have noted, no longer true with Firefox! 55,329 for Stylish to 71,434 for Stylus. (Chrome still featuring Stylish unfortunately.)
EDIT 16:51 UTC: Wikipedia updated:
> Firefox now reports fewer users of Stylish than its more popular alternative, Stylus.
With Stylus:
> The objective was to "remove any and all analytics, and return to a more user-friendly UI." It restored the user interface of Stylish 1.5.2 and removed Google Analytics.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stylus_(browser_extension)
Get Stylus:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/styl-us/
> In September 2016 Jason Barnabe, the creator of Stylish and userstyles.org, announced that, having lost interest in the project, he had "chosen Justin Hindman as the next leader of Stylish and userstyles.org." Hindman had no prior connection to either Stylish or userstyles.org, and it soon became clear that Barnabe had simply sold them to Hindman in a straw purchase for Israeli analytics company SimilarWeb.
> In December 2016 Hindman began releasing updates to Stylish for Chrome which returned a perfect replica of the user's browsing activity to Userstyles. On 3 January 2017 he announced a "partnership" with SimilarWeb in which "Stylish users [would] be joining SimilarWeb’s market research panel.". A Firefox web extension (3.0.1) was released on 10 November, after a final update (2.1.1) to the Stylish XUL+XPCOM add-on on 31 October to migrate user styles to a webextension-compatible database.
> In July 2018, after these issues were publicized by a software engineer, Stylish was pulled from both the Chrome Web Store and Mozilla Add-ons, as well as being automatically uninstalled for all existing users. Stylish returned to Mozilla Add-ons on 16 August and to the Chrome Web Store on 5 November with the same logic but sporting a new opt-in page asking users to agree to the data collection when the extension was installed. Both platforms continue to report more users of Stylish than of its most popular alternative, Stylus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stylish#Privacy_issues
As other reviewers have noted, no longer true with Firefox! 55,329 for Stylish to 71,434 for Stylus. (Chrome still featuring Stylish unfortunately.)
EDIT 16:51 UTC: Wikipedia updated:
> Firefox now reports fewer users of Stylish than its more popular alternative, Stylus.
With Stylus:
> The objective was to "remove any and all analytics, and return to a more user-friendly UI." It restored the user interface of Stylish 1.5.2 and removed Google Analytics.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stylus_(browser_extension)
Get Stylus:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/styl-us/
957 reviews
- Rated 1 out of 5by Raven9000, 5 days agoConsider uninstalling the malicious Stylish extension. In 2016, with no input from the userbase, through some guy, pretending to be an independent developer, it basically was sold to a shady web analytics company, Similarweb. Since then, it is actively sharing your entire non-anonymized browsing history demo with them, assuming you ever clicked on one of the flashy "Agree" buttons. It initially did this without even asking for consent, and was banned from extension stores afterwards. Currently, it still breaks store policies, yet is not banned for unknown reasons. A safe alternative is Stylus.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12579719, 6 days ago
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- Rated 1 out of 5by Marty, 4 months agoThis extension is a complete hoax. The homepage userstyles.org is not accessible with the Firefox browser. On all Chrome-based sites, userstyles.org is accessible without any problems. It's a shame how Firefox users are being fooled here.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 15608356, 4 months ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by combdn, 4 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Beyk, 5 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Qtsuin, 6 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Lex, 7 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Ariana, 7 months agothis is no longer the extension for this addon it is not called stylus for firefox cause i tried installing a them from stylish main page and it installed to that extension on my firefox browser so i reccomend picking that extension up if you wanna continue using it this is the link for that extension https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/styl-us/?utm_source=addons.mozilla.org&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=search
- Rated 1 out of 5by Alfredo Traviatto PutoKuñao, 8 months agoLo siento, pero esta utilidad no funciona. No hay manera de activar los estilos. Tampoco se pueden editar.
¿Qué habéis hecho? ¿Cómo es posible que un desarrollo como el que habéis tenido que hacer para crear esta herramienta, haya dejado de funcionar? Creo que es una falta de respeto porque, ahora, tendremos que perder el tiempo buscando otra utilidad.
¡Qué vergüenza! En mi grupo, dedicamos más del 30% a pruebas de software y a detectar regresiones. - Rated 1 out of 5by alberto.villar, 8 months agoZero stars because for many years I have supported the product and recommended it to whomever asked for web-page tailoring. To my surprise, I have found today (a new installation) that I cannot import the exported styles. I cannot create a new one because no edit box appears. With the new release, the product was of no use. This reminds me of Microsoft's attitude breaking old stuff.
I have supported the tool for many years. Stylish, along with Greasemonkey, were my main recommendations for tailoring web pages.
The exact day when I see I can import and edit scripts, I'll come back to the 5 starts. Now I have to find a different set of tools. - Rated 1 out of 5by Smartik1, 8 months agoSpyware, privacy policy doesn't load, asks for permissions to track every URL you visit.
- Rated 1 out of 5by itismartin, 9 months ago
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