Reviews for Video DownloadHelper
Video DownloadHelper by mig, Paul
Review by Firefox user 15564627
Rated 1 out of 5
by Firefox user 15564627, 5 years agoI wouldn't recommend using this. This will put a watermark on the majority of your downloaded videos unless you purchase a license. The biggest alarm is that this add-on requires you to download an external program (which it doesn't state anywhere in the description). The site claims that it's necessary and provides the source code via github, but no hash to verify it with the source code. Soon after downloading this, I started having some odd behavior with a service via svchost.exe causing high memory spikes, which I had never had since I've installed my OS years ago, and this was the only software I've installed recently in months.
I'm still checking whether the .exe of this addon was the cause, but I would be extremely careful and compile the companion app from the source code yourself if you're set on using this. There's another safer download tool called youtube-dl that is open source, well documented, and free. It's command line only but there's a gui front-end for it that also has instructions to compile directly from the source code.
I'm still checking whether the .exe of this addon was the cause, but I would be extremely careful and compile the companion app from the source code yourself if you're set on using this. There's another safer download tool called youtube-dl that is open source, well documented, and free. It's command line only but there's a gui front-end for it that also has instructions to compile directly from the source code.
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- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 16127446, 9 hours ago28 dollars is bullshit for what jdownloader does for free. I'd pay $10 for a lifetime license and not a cent more.
- Rated 2 out of 5by shadowrider2, 9 hours agoWorks but it's completely unusable with the watermark. It's basically an adware now
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- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 17757555, 15 hours agoΠολύ χρήσιμο εργαλείο. Με περιθώρια βελτίωσης όμως είναι free και αυτό είναι πολύ σημαντικό.
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- Rated 5 out of 5by Baxter, 17 hours agoIt's helped me download a lot of things you aren't supposed to be able to download.
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- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 14887952, a day agoUnverzichtbar, wenns um den Download von Youtube Videos geht. Leider funktioniert der Download von Videos nicht unter allen Umstaenden im Bereich des eigenen Youtube-Studios (wenn man beispielsweise Videos hochlaedt, encoden laesst, auf scheduled stellt und dann wieder downloaden will). Dann springt der Erkenner nicht an.
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