Reviews for Video DownloadHelper
Video DownloadHelper by mig, Paul
4,036 reviews
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14785589, 5 years agoDo not install this rubbish. Adds horrible barcode to video. Unwatchable! Uninstalled!!!!
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14785198, 5 years agoRequires an additional app and you have to pay to remove a watermark and may be to listen the audio because my downloaded videos are mute. Why it not clear from the beginning that it is not free?
- Rated 1 out of 5by Luciron, 5 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14780645, 5 years agoIt was great until it started nagging about this goddamn companion app.
You can take your fucking companion app and shove it up your ass.
Uninstall. - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14778959, 5 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14774586, 5 years agoMy first (& last) download was damaged because I was'nt registered! You didn't have to force me to register! If it was a good app, I would come for more....
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14773567, 5 years agoOnly detects 5 out of 63 videos in a YouTube playlist. Confirmed useless cos other video downloaders detected all 63.
WTF? - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13507145, 5 years agouseless, doesn't do anything but asks to install additional program.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 12748590, 5 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14763512, 5 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14758903, 5 years agoSuspicious companion app required... Watermark added to downloaded video.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14754558, 5 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by peternn, 5 years agoThis add-on actually can *not* save videos. In order to save a video, it asks for downloading a 'companion' app, which is an executable that has to be installed separately and hence the browser security restrictions do not apply to it - it can do virtually anything.
This is highly suspicious, because external applications are not necessary in order to save files. I removed it and installed a different video downloader add-on which can save files just fine without 'companion' executables.
Another suspicious thing is that this addon requires some permissions which are not needed for the functionality it provides. - Rated 1 out of 5by BaraShiro, 5 years agoI want an addon that does exactly one thing, download videos. This addon used to do this, but now they have started to run videos through some kind of converter (= slow) and leaving a big watermark on the video, asking for money to remove it. Completely useless, uninstalled.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Simon Parzer, 5 years agoWorks really well in theory, but as others have said before, it puts a huge watermark on the downloaded video, then asks you to buy a "premium" version without that anti-feature.
The add-on does not tell you that beforehand, not even in the description! Downloading a video can take a long time so it is deliberately wasting your time just to increase the chances of you paying for it. I call this misleading and a shady business practice. - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13511563, 5 years agoWhy does it need all these autorisations: Access to your data for ALL websites, exchange messages with OTHER programs than Firefox, consult and modify the history of downloads, access Firefox activity while browsing Internet.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14749969, 5 years agothis app asks for way too many access permissions. Check carefully before accepting them.
also places a huge, intrusive QR code "watermark" on top of the content - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14749490, 5 years agoНе работает!
Просит скачать дополнительные приложения!
После скачивания дополнительных приложений, конвертирует видео с водяным знаком!!!
Для возможности получить видео без ВСТРОЕННОЙ РЕКЛАМЫ требует заплатить 28$ !!!!!!!!!!!!
ВЫ ТАМ ЕБАНУЛИСЬ В КРАЙ ????????????!!!!!!!! - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13643998, 6 years agoI previously gave this ad-on high marks.
Now it unfortunately no longer works with Firefox as it did before.
There may be ways to get it to function, but I don't have the time or interest.
If making this software comply with Firefox requirements isn't worth it for the developer I simply have to agree and move on to the next download option.
It was great while it lasted. - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14745331, 6 years agovereist nu een extra app om video's te downloaden. en deze is nu betalend!!
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14745030, 6 years agoLeider ist es das einzige Tool, das ich gefunden habe mit dem ich Videos ohne Konvertierung direkt herunterladen kann. ClipConverter hat mittlerweile zuviele Sperren und Popups drin.
Nun aber zum VDH das mit einem neuen Win 10 Rechner und dem aktuellen Firefox genutzt wird:
1. Es frisst sehr viele Ressourcen so dass alle anderen Downloads abgebrochen werden.
2. Mehrere Downloads gleichzeitig stellen ein weiteres Problem dar > zuviele Abbrüche.
3. Das Schlimmste ist die Meldung dass der Download erfolgreich beendet wurde. Leider fehlt am Zeitbalken eine Info wie lange der Originalfilm läuft. Ob der heruntergeladene Film wirklich zu 100% vollständig ist kann man nur prüfen wenn man den Film öffnet und die Spielzeit vergleicht.
4. Ich kann den Downloadort nicht wirklich beeinflussen. Denn zuerst wird anscheinend auf C geschrieben und nach Abschluss in den Soll-Ordner kopiert oder verschoben.
Sobald ich ein besseres Tool gefunden habe fliegt dieses wieder von meinem Rechner. - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14744415, 6 years agoI downloaded a big video, waited for many hours for it to convert and AFTER the conversion it tells it'll have a watermark. It could warn me when asked to intall the companion app, but no! After 9 f... hours of wait, it give me an enormous watermark in the screen...