You cannot rely on this extension (or anything like it, for that matter) to replace personal research and critical thinking.

The political biases of the creators with regards to who is part of the trans community, what is or is not transphobic, what language is or is not appropriate, etc. directly impact the TOS and intended purpose of this extension, so if your politics diverge at all (which they likely will, just because of how many stances there are to have), labels on accounts and pages may mislead you.

On top of this, users can and do falsely flag accounts as trans-friendly or transphobic (I've personally been marked friendly before for simply being part of a trans-positive group which is not what the label is meant to mean, but this feature can also easily be used maliciously), and high numbers of people using the extension results in false or misleading flags having a huge impact on the amount of engagement a user gets, which homogenises what LGBT+ talking points and perspectives get seen online.

Extensions such as this can be handy at times, but without attached explanation for why a user is marked the way they are, it acts less like an informative tool and more like a prosthetic gut instinct with someone else's biases baked into it instead of your own.

I'm personally removing this extension in response to a blog that should qualify for the trans-friendly label being irreversably marked as transphobic by the creators due to political disagreement, likely on the specifics of the relationship between the intersex and transgender communities. The blog owner does a lot of really important outreach and IRL community work, and has unique and important perspectives that a lot of people will no longer engage with because of the false label.

It was nice to have quick information to look to when something didn't quite sit right with me because I have a lot of trouble trusting my own instincts, but on further meditation I'm not OK with a tool like this deciding how I should feel for me.

If you do choose to install the extension, please consider its labels an invitation to inspect further and figure out why that label is there, instead of simply taking it as an objective marker of who is or is not safe. Nobody can judge what is or is not safe for you except yourself.

This started off as a great concept but has essentially become useless due to the attitudes of the dev(s?) reflecting an incredibly closed-minded view of what transness is. Do not trust this extension's markings in the slightest - it used to be a good indicator (taken with a grain of salt of course) but is now no better than throwing a dart blindfolded. If someone makes a fork that fixes these issues (perhaps something like ublock has where you can add other people's lists) I would love to use it as the concept of the community helping each other is very helpful.

Pretty neat, would be better if the people behind it weren't intersexist and transmisandrist. Two stars because it's marginally better than nothing right now, fix this and yourselves doofs.

transandrophobia and theres been a lot of false positives lately that cant be changed back to green for some reason

Recent infighting has made this extension far less reliable. Trans people mark other trans people red for petty reasons constantly. It's really frustrating to have to gamble on if a red name is gonna have literal hate speech when you double check or if they just got into a fight with the wrong person.

I still think it's worth using, but you can't take any highlights at face value. You have to verify for yourself (which means you have to expose yourself to transphobia a whole lot). Better than nothing, but I really wish it wasn't treated like it's infallible. It's not.

Used to be good but now people are using this extension for completely stupid reasons such as marking other trans people and intersex people as 'anti-trans' for the crime of- *checks notes* talking about their own experiences?

I won't stop using this extension as it can be useful- but I may take that back if stuff like this continues.

Honestly, while I use this add-on more to mark stuff myself, and it is useful for that; I cannot actively support the creator of it since she seems to be perfectly fine with transphobia directed at Trans men, mascs, and nonbinary people. And as well as fine with intersexism (sexism directed to intersex individuals). Several times this extension has marked people green who are spewing transphobic rhetoric of other trans people, but then mark red trans men and intersex people speaking to their own oppression and lived experiences. Genuinely, it is disheartening seeing a creator of what should be a trans friendly extension- be grossly transphobic and intersexist to the very people they claim to 'protect'.

Extremely hit-or-miss nowadays. Intersexist people are randomly marked green while actual trans-friendly and transgender people (like MYSELF) get marked red. This extension needs to be remade with more robust vetting policies.

This used to really be useful, but in the past month or so seemingly random people have been marked as transphobic, while I see green names who have actively harassed trans women I'm close to, and who otherwise don't meet the current requirements for being marked green whatsoever. Not sure what is happening but I am no longer very trusting of the judgements being made.

Extension seems broken, source code isn't available, and results are wildly inconsistent. It's useful if you don't want to get to know people by talking to them, but the notion of crafting a master list of bigots based on anonymous reports is kind of iffy

edited: it used to be really helpful! now it's, like, 50-50 on whether someone marked red is actually a violent transphobe, or just a trans man talking about transphobia they face or an intersex person using a label the mods don't seem to like. having to manually check every single time whether someone's actually transphobic defeats the entire purpose of the extension and it's also exhausting

I can see flagged links but I can't flag them myself for some reason. Why??

this app is amazing and potentially lifesaving - but please can it be fixed so it works on tumblr again!!

Helpful, but kind of useless at the same time when crypto fascist twitch streamers show up as green lol

doesn't seem to work when right clicking on any page. clicking on options via the addon page brings me to the guidelines and accept button, but those do nothing for me

edit: seems to work now, but im still slightly displeased over the extension featuring contrapoints, who's takes on being trans come from an extremely privileged and cis viewpoint