collect more data ?
no thx. youtube usable without this data hungry app

The developer suddenly updated this app to add a bunch of analytics features that pop open around YouTube videos and beg you to pay the developer money for "premium" features. It now also collects data from your browser.

Return YouTube Dislike is a privacy‑overreaching, intrusive, and increasingly untrustworthy extension. The recent update demanding broad data‑collection permissions is unacceptable, and the developer’s decisions make this add‑on something we cannot recommend to anyone.

The new permissions - and why they’re a problem
Firefox’s updated privacy labels reveal the true scope of what the extension can access:

Browsing activity - It can monitor when you navigate between videos.

Website content - It can read elements on YouTube pages.

Personally identifiable information - It uses a private user ID tied to your activity, even if “randomly generated.”

Online/activity data - It tracks likes/dislikes and viewing behavior.

The developer insists this is limited to YouTube and the extension’s own site, but the permission categories themselves are broad, and users must trust that the extension never expands its scope. Trust is earned and this project has repeatedly damaged that trust.

Why you should not use it
It requires powerful permissions that allow reading and modifying data on YouTube a major privacy risk for an extension maintained by a single developer.

It has already introduced intrusive pop‑ups, which many users mistook for malware.

Firefox’s new labels expose how much data it touches, and even if anonymized, the extension still collects and sends user interaction data to its servers.

Backend code is not fully open‑source, meaning users cannot audit what happens to their data once it leaves their browser.

Why YouTube itself must retain control over dislikes?

The public display of dislikes is not just a cosmetic feature. It affects:

Creator safety

Anti‑harassment mechanisms

Algorithmic fairness

Abuse prevention

External extensions that artificially restore this function bypass protection mechanisms that we intentionally implemented to shield creators from targeted dislike campaigns.

Only the platform itself can ensure that interaction data is handled responsibly, transparently, and in accordance with privacy and security guidelines.

The Google Team

New permissions are horrible, personal information?

Solicita Actividad de navegación e Información de identificación personal, elementos que previamente no solicitaba. Quiere vender tu información.

You do not need any "IDENTIFIABLE" information.
You do not need any "BROWSING HISTORY".

Why tf would you need all that to show dislikes.

Worked fine until now and now it need to harvest your data to function. F .... U

Non autorisée dans les fenêtres privées. Cette extension ne fonctionne pas en navigation privée.

Pourquoi??

Not allowed in private windows. This extension does not work in private browsing.

Why??


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Vous ne répondez PAS à la question...Pourquoi FIREFOX n'autorise pas cette extension dans les fenêtres privées ?? C'est dommage je ne peut pas l'utiliser.


You are NOT answering the question...Why doesn't Firefox allow this extension in private windows? It's a shame I can't use it.

i just don't think you need allat

Te roba información y contraseñas de tus cuentas de Google. Para que el rusito hacker tenga que salir a aclararlo el log, es porque está hasta las pelotas!

Very dissapointed about the data collection. It's completely unnecessary.

With the latest update I recommend everybody flees this extension. They added further data collection that wasn't here before.

UNINSTALL IMMEDIATELY Firefox says this extension now collects personally identifying information, browser activity, website content, and website activity.

I felt uneasy after this release. It was a solid release then they had to get my browsing activity. Thanks but no thanks.

Russian spyware nonsense - never install this garbage.

Russian name...now asking for permissions the add-on clearly doesnt need in order to function. Yea screw that, im uninstalling. I dont care if it is open source, that doesnt give you a pass to spy. I dont feel safe having this installed any further. You dont need those permissions just to add a number onto a webpage! The browser warning is completely warranted and was the right thing for Firefox to do.
*You definitely do not need these permissions!*...unless you're up to no good.

The new update is probably AI generated after months of inactivity the dev pushed an enormous 39,880 lines of code in their repo.I hope we get a clarification, until this uninstalled

Firefox warned me about some sketchy permission changes, it hasn't worked properly for me for months so I uninstalled.

What's up with new permissions? Now you're playing spy heh?

No longer working.

Completely broken. No dislike icon, so you can't tell if you disliked a video already, and the count is in prose ("one thousand and twenty..." instead of "1023"), which is so long it won't fit in the button and gets cropped, so you can't read the count either

marche pas

The add-on doesn't display any real data. Useless.