Reviews for Shinigami Eyes
Shinigami Eyes by Shinigami Eyes
Review by Waap
Rated 2 out of 5
by Waap, 2 years agoYou 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.
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.
1,428 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Galius, 2 days ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 20037153, 3 days agoI looked at the guidelines when wondering why so many pro-transgender pages are marked red and it sounds like using assigned-gender-at-birth language is being encouraged as "do not mark trans-friendly" due to transmisogyny. Julia Serrano's article on what transmisogyny is does use that language. So am I supposed to mark Julia Serrano as anti-trans??? I'm supposed to flag the woman who coined the term "transmisogyny" as being violently transphobic? That sounds rather counterproductive! Can the developer explain why this is supposed to make sense? Are people flagging others just to see them turn red? Did anti-trans people raid the app, and the mods just can't keep up?
- Rated 1 out of 5by mina, 3 days agoBeen noticing a very weird pattern of trans people of color (regardless whether they're ftm, mtf or enby) or people who point out racism within trans community being marked as red. Do not use.
- Rated 5 out of 5by bunykit, 3 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Meowing, 4 days agoReview bomb this fake trans friendly app, wouldn't be surprised if the owner is a trans women chaser who is also transphobic
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 20033086, 5 days agoI got marked red because I said I headcanoned ralsei as transmasc
- Rated 2 out of 5by woob, 5 days agoWas using this for years to avoid dealing with blatant transphobes but now half the markers are over intracommunity squabbles so it's become practically useless for that purpose. trans woman btw.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 20031774, 5 days agoInsanely transphobic, exorsexist, and intersexist, it's so disappointing
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17758123, 7 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by explodingcows54, 8 days agovery commonly see transmeds (people who police transness) marked as green and trans men marked as red, with no evidence theyre anti trans or trans friendly. lacks unbiased review.
- Rated 1 out of 5by hi, 9 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by EmpurressNepetaIII, 10 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by betseg, 11 days ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by tsintzask, 12 days agoIt works fine. Of course anything with a community-sourced database is gonna have its misfires, but overall it serves its purpose well enough.
I'd like the ability to mark stuff on mobile firefox too, though. Or at least to be able to manually import an override list, or something along those lines. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16876736, 14 days agoif you are a trans woman you NEED this extention. if you are a trans man who knows transandrophobia is not an actual axis of oppression and wants to be more of a transfeminist you NEED this extention.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 19938679, 14 days agoHorribly transphobic extension! It marks trans men/mascs, nonbinary people, and intersex people as "transphobic" for simply talking about the oppression they face, meanwhile trans women/fems are allowed to be as racist, ableist, and laterally queerphobic as they want, and they're somehow fine. The creators of this extension should be ashamed of themselves. At best, there's no oversight or verification of any kind to prevent this, and at worst, this is something they actively encourage. Absolutely disgusting.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 20016844, 14 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by BB, 19 days agoRather than correctly marking people as trans friendly/anti-trans it's being weaponized to pit Trans siblings against each other. Unless you're purposely trying to fracture the trans community, DO NOT INSTALL. Shinigami eyes cannot be trusted.
- Rated 1 out of 5by calicoCatkind, 22 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by NixDrgnslyr, 22 days agoIf you have basic information parsing skills you'll be fine using this extension. False positives are real but they can be fixed if more people use the extension lol
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 17829284, 24 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 19975913, 25 days agothis is not useful, easy for misinformation to spread via mass flagging campaigns. it is better to make your own opinions of someone. similar to AI it is not good to outsource your thinking ability.
- Rated 5 out of 5by lurby, a month agofantastic extension. It's very nice if you do a lot of research or news reading. I only wish that someone being colored by it included a little blurb on hover that quickly summarized why they got colored.
Don't be scared by the ratings. From what I can tell, the review bombing seems to be transmisogynists doing the DARVO thing, similar to when white people say "you know, calling people racist is the REAL racism". - Rated 5 out of 5by suiqune, a month ago