Reviews for Video DownloadHelper
Video DownloadHelper by mig, Paul
4,036 reviews
- Rated 1 out of 5by nico, 4 years agoThis program shouldn't be rocommended at all. It is not freeware, but share-ware or nag-ware. Shame on firefox developpers: your credibility is in danger
- Rated 1 out of 5by juan riccio, 4 years agoUninstalled: it turned into crapware.
ADDS WATERMARK to downloaded videos. Pay to remove.
For audio: it doesn't work anymore on, e.g., SoundCloud. Only reports and downloads short ~100K snippets. I won't install a companion app anyway. Looking for different solutions. - Rated 1 out of 5by Cem Gundogdu, 4 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by catadeluxe, 4 years agoIt got ENSHITIFIED! Forces you to install a program on your computer, raising privacy concerns (no forced program prior to 2020), adds HUGE watermarks on your videos unless you pay. Extortion. Bad software. I want a browser add-on, not a program with watermarks and privacy breaches. Mozilla should remove this.
- Rated 1 out of 5by font21, 4 years agoThis USED to be the best video down loader. But, now it it entirely crippled and can only down load with a companion app....one that I do not trust.
- Rated 1 out of 5by farcus, 4 years agoAre you kidding me? First you have to install another program to download anything. Then you have a watermark on the downloaded video. How is this any good?
- Rated 1 out of 5by Antonio, 4 years agoI just tried to download a 30 sec video and it never deteceted
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 12464733, 4 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Dreamer, 4 years agoCan't use it because Apple won't allow the companion app to be installed
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 15639091, 4 years agoTLDR: Find another solution to fill your download desires. Very disappointed with Mozilla for permitting this app to be marketed this way. Have come to expect better from Mozilla, though that is meant in the very best of ways since I've never encountered an app worthy of a negative review on the site before.
How things have changed. Seem to remember this working as advertised back in the beginning.
Now, not so much. Free add-on places an intrusive code in top corner. Can't miss it. To get rid of it or download in any useful file format or other feature you might need, you have shell out $27! for a "companion app".
Still spotty at best. But if you're into frustrating download experiences that end without you getting your download, this is definitely the app for you.
Strong pass.
Although it should be noted, most seem satisfied. - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 15649033, 4 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14202407, 4 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Buntoo Boi, 4 years agoCrapola, need companion app to download anything, some sort of malware probably.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Kipper, 4 years agoI ended up trying to update the compainion app cause I thought 'hey maybe that will allow me to download from twitter', given before it was spotty at best then just stopped working all together.
It wouldn't update, at all, cause I needed 'admin permission' despite being the admin. Okay, I'll just delete it. I couldn't, and now there's about 50 mb of data as junk files left on my computer cause I'm unable to delete said files, or even uninstall fully, cause apparently the files ffmpeg and the net download helper coapp thing are stuck on my computer cause I don't have permissions to remove them. I'm not dealing with this anymore, I'm done.
Don't use this. - Rated 1 out of 5by Brad, 4 years agorequires a companion app to download anything and its a huge pain in the A
- Rated 1 out of 5by saturn89, 4 years agoThis was good like 6 years ago, now you can't download anything, you can only "stream" it and watch it through their own player, I need something to download and have it on my laptop, this add on is AWFUL!
- Rated 1 out of 5by sup2069, 4 years agoRequires a desktop app for windows or mac to work at all. WASTE OF TIME.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 15830678, 4 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by sesshoth, 4 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by fuck u, 4 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 15950428, 4 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 15949725, 4 years agoHuge watermark and it doesn't say so beforehand.