The newly required Lifetime License fee to remove the QR code should be fairly priced at $4.99

The 'Red Pill' Reality: the 'engine' doing the heavy lifting (downloading & converting) is still just FFmpeg, which is free, open-source software built by volunteers. You are essentially paying $30 for lifetime access to a dashboard that drives a free car.

To be fair to the Developer: Paul and his team built a very polished Link Sniffer and a nice UI. They also updated the 'Companion App' to handle HLS streams smoothly. For a non-technical user, this convenience has some value.

Why $4.99 is the fair price: You are paying for the convenience of not using a command line. That is worth a cup of coffee ($5), not the price of a full premium indie video game ($30).

How to do it yourself for free (The steps they don't want you to know): If you have 5 minutes, you can replicate this 'Premium' functionality for $0:

Option A (Web-based & Clean): Use cobalt[dot]tools. Unlike other sites, it has NO ads and NO trackers. (Pro Tip: Smart users run uBlock Origin anyway, which makes the free web safer than many paid apps).

Option B (Power User):

Install 'The Stream Detector' (Firefox addon) to sniff the links just like this extension does.

Click it -> select 'Copy yt-dlp command'.

Paste that into your terminal with yt-dlp (free open source).

A premium UI but the 'magic' is free elsewhere. Save your money unless you are allergic to keyboards.

It works, but it has become more privacy invasive over time. Requires downloading a lot of random plug-ins.

Intuitive and very useful.

der mit abstand beste video downloader den ich je benutzt habe. funzt auf 95% aller seiten die ich probiert habe

Easy to use. Works most of the time.

This Video Downloadhelper app is awesome!!!
Great results on quality and will be checking for an upgrade for faster downloads..

perfection

This has been a must-have extension for saving videos. Used hundreds of times with very few issues and was happy to pay for the license. It would be nice to select or force a higher resolution if the source has it but the extension doesn't detect it. Also would be great to select start and stop time controls to grab only part of a lengthy video. Need to remove the gating on age restricted videos on YT; many place an age restriction for the forced login and really aren't age restricted by definition.

Module qui fonctionne parfaitement.

trash lure Freemium app

Excelente ferramenta, principalmente para aqueles casos em que você tem pouco tempo para assistir um vídeo que se tornará indisponível em poucas horas.

Best video downloader extension

Excellent extension: it's useful and works great.

Can you update it to the last version?? currently 10.0.271.2