Reviews for Return YouTube Dislike
Return YouTube Dislike by Dmitry Selivanov
Review by Nico
Rated 5 out of 5
by Nico, 19 hours agoTo people downvoting this, you can fault Mozilla for making the wording of this being more worrying than it actually is.
This extension still works wonders, even now. The pop-up is purely optional and you can close it, as it'll never pop back up again.
Why Firefox/Mozilla decided to word it as such, I have no idea.
This extension still works wonders, even now. The pop-up is purely optional and you can close it, as it'll never pop back up again.
Why Firefox/Mozilla decided to word it as such, I have no idea.
Developer response
posted 19 hours agoThanks for taking the time to share this.
RYD hasn’t changed how it handles your data. Mozilla changed how it labels these permissions - what the extension does with your data is the same.
The extension only uses the data needed 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.
Here’s what those permission labels mean:
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 refers to activity on YouTube. 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 allow the extension to access 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. Mozilla changed how it labels these permissions - what the extension does with your data is the same.
The extension only uses the data needed 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.
Here’s what those permission labels mean:
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 refers to activity on YouTube. 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 allow the extension to access more websites.
RYD is open source, so you can see how it works: https://github.com/Anarios/return-youtube-dislike