Return YouTube Dislike incelemeleri
Return YouTube Dislike geliştiren: Dmitry Selivanov
Google adlı kullanıcının incelemesi
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yazan: Google, 18 saat önceReturn 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
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
Geliştiricinin yanıtı
gönderilme: 17 saat önceThanks for the feedback. Let me explain what those permissions mean.
RYD hasn’t changed how it handles your data. What changed is how Mozilla labels these permissions - not what the extension does with your data.
The extension only uses the data it needs to show dislikes and count votes.
Its site permissions cover YouTube and its own API at returnyoutubedislikeapi.com. RYD doesn’t read other websites, and these site permissions cannot be used to access them.
Personally identifiable information - RYD’s randomly generated, anonymous user ID, used to count votes. This isn’t your Google or YouTube account.
Browsing activity - opening the next YouTube video, so the extension can send its video ID and fetch the new dislike count.
Website content - things like the visible like count, which helps calculate dislike estimates.
Website activity - clicking Like or Dislike.
Again, this is about YouTube activity. The extension isn’t watching everything you do across the internet - it simply can’t do that with these site permissions.
The new labels sound scary, but they don’t give the extension access to more websites.
RYD is open source, so you can see how it works: https://github.com/Anarios/return-youtube-dislike
RYD hasn’t changed how it handles your data. What changed is how Mozilla labels these permissions - not what the extension does with your data.
The extension only uses the data it needs to show dislikes and count votes.
Its site permissions cover YouTube and its own API at returnyoutubedislikeapi.com. RYD doesn’t read other websites, and these site permissions cannot be used to access them.
Personally identifiable information - RYD’s randomly generated, anonymous user ID, used to count votes. This isn’t your Google or YouTube account.
Browsing activity - opening the next YouTube video, so the extension can send its video ID and fetch the new dislike count.
Website content - things like the visible like count, which helps calculate dislike estimates.
Website activity - clicking Like or Dislike.
Again, this is about YouTube activity. The extension isn’t watching everything you do across the internet - it simply can’t do that with these site permissions.
The new labels sound scary, but they don’t give the extension access to more websites.
RYD is open source, so you can see how it works: https://github.com/Anarios/return-youtube-dislike