Reviews for Stylish - Custom themes for any website
Stylish - Custom themes for any website by userstyles.org
Review by rdela
Rated 1 out of 5
by rdela, 4 years ago2022-11-08
> In September 2016 Jason Barnabe, the creator of Stylish and userstyles.org, announced that, having lost interest in the project, he had "chosen Justin Hindman as the next leader of Stylish and userstyles.org." Hindman had no prior connection to either Stylish or userstyles.org, and it soon became clear that Barnabe had simply sold them to Hindman in a straw purchase for Israeli analytics company SimilarWeb.
> In December 2016 Hindman began releasing updates to Stylish for Chrome which returned a perfect replica of the user's browsing activity to Userstyles. On 3 January 2017 he announced a "partnership" with SimilarWeb in which "Stylish users [would] be joining SimilarWeb’s market research panel.". A Firefox web extension (3.0.1) was released on 10 November, after a final update (2.1.1) to the Stylish XUL+XPCOM add-on on 31 October to migrate user styles to a webextension-compatible database.
> In July 2018, after these issues were publicized by a software engineer, Stylish was pulled from both the Chrome Web Store and Mozilla Add-ons, as well as being automatically uninstalled for all existing users. Stylish returned to Mozilla Add-ons on 16 August and to the Chrome Web Store on 5 November with the same logic but sporting a new opt-in page asking users to agree to the data collection when the extension was installed. Both platforms continue to report more users of Stylish than of its most popular alternative, Stylus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stylish#Privacy_issues
As other reviewers have noted, no longer true with Firefox! 55,329 for Stylish to 71,434 for Stylus. (Chrome still featuring Stylish unfortunately.)
EDIT 16:51 UTC: Wikipedia updated:
> Firefox now reports fewer users of Stylish than its more popular alternative, Stylus.
With Stylus:
> The objective was to "remove any and all analytics, and return to a more user-friendly UI." It restored the user interface of Stylish 1.5.2 and removed Google Analytics.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stylus_(browser_extension)
Get Stylus:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/styl-us/
> In September 2016 Jason Barnabe, the creator of Stylish and userstyles.org, announced that, having lost interest in the project, he had "chosen Justin Hindman as the next leader of Stylish and userstyles.org." Hindman had no prior connection to either Stylish or userstyles.org, and it soon became clear that Barnabe had simply sold them to Hindman in a straw purchase for Israeli analytics company SimilarWeb.
> In December 2016 Hindman began releasing updates to Stylish for Chrome which returned a perfect replica of the user's browsing activity to Userstyles. On 3 January 2017 he announced a "partnership" with SimilarWeb in which "Stylish users [would] be joining SimilarWeb’s market research panel.". A Firefox web extension (3.0.1) was released on 10 November, after a final update (2.1.1) to the Stylish XUL+XPCOM add-on on 31 October to migrate user styles to a webextension-compatible database.
> In July 2018, after these issues were publicized by a software engineer, Stylish was pulled from both the Chrome Web Store and Mozilla Add-ons, as well as being automatically uninstalled for all existing users. Stylish returned to Mozilla Add-ons on 16 August and to the Chrome Web Store on 5 November with the same logic but sporting a new opt-in page asking users to agree to the data collection when the extension was installed. Both platforms continue to report more users of Stylish than of its most popular alternative, Stylus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stylish#Privacy_issues
As other reviewers have noted, no longer true with Firefox! 55,329 for Stylish to 71,434 for Stylus. (Chrome still featuring Stylish unfortunately.)
EDIT 16:51 UTC: Wikipedia updated:
> Firefox now reports fewer users of Stylish than its more popular alternative, Stylus.
With Stylus:
> The objective was to "remove any and all analytics, and return to a more user-friendly UI." It restored the user interface of Stylish 1.5.2 and removed Google Analytics.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stylus_(browser_extension)
Get Stylus:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/styl-us/
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- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 19553534, 2 months agoSPYWARE!!!
"Consider uninstalling the malicious Stylish extension. In 2016, with no input from the userbase, through some guy, pretending to be an independent developer, it basically was sold to a shady web analytics company, Similarweb. Since then, it is actively sharing your entire non-anonymized browsing history demo with them, assuming you ever clicked on one of the flashy "Agree" buttons. It initially did this without even asking for consent, and was banned from extension stores afterwards. Currently, it still breaks store policies, yet is not banned for unknown to me reasons. This website only works with the Stylus extension, which is an open-source privacy-friendly fork of the now-malicious Stylish extension." (Text from the UserStyles.org archive)
TL;DR This extension is SPYWARE and you should use the 'Stylus' extension instead. - Rated 1 out of 5by jojojo, 2 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by kakaze, 3 months agoВот же погань. У меня битый год браузер тормозил при каждой загрузке и не откликался. Думал что из-за перегрузки вкладками или/и мб каких то расширений. Про это расширение ваще забыл (оно давно перестало работать и не пользовался). Но тут проходил мимо по таким расширениям и решил это снести. И вуаля, внезапно попал прямо в точку, внезапно браузер перестал аутировать на загрузке и стал нормально грузиться (при старте), я аж удивился! Не знаю отсылало ли оно данные или нет, но то что он куда то лез не в свое дело или пытался по крайней мере, точно, ну или же оно на сток кривое что из-за него тормозил весь браузер на загрузке. В любом случае скам, рейтинг оправдан.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Сырное, 6 months agoF Y! The style site does not work - the developer has built in protection against browsers. Not a single browser could access his site, although the protection frame was loaded. I don’t have protections enabled - why doesn’t it work?
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 17488740, 6 months agoSpyware that steals your all browser history. Uninstall it immediately. Use more popular, lightweight, feature-rich and community-driven Stylus instead.
- Rated 1 out of 5by xielle !!, 7 months agoguys use stylus bc stylish is spyware and stylus is more secure and you can use it like yourte using stylish on chrome
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 19449361, 9 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Sean Nava, 9 months agoThis so-called addon is nothing but Spyware (even for being here on Firefox its web doesn't load on Firefox but it does on Chrome). Stylus is much better and safe
- Rated 1 out of 5by nova_37, 10 months agoVery limited selection of themes as the website is broken.
...the hello kitty youtube theme looked okay, but I wanted one with mroe pink, so I tried to search. It said "bad gateway". I will not return. - Rated 1 out of 5by K., a year ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 19113272, a year ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by IdownloadTooManyExtensions, a year agoIf You Use This Uninstall This Malicious Extension If You Want An Alternative Use Stylus
- Rated 1 out of 5by Misathor Mzätrimungci, a year ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Mimi, a year ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by James Zersche, a year ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by BlueSnow, a year agoNe fonctionne pas du tout et en plus quand on accède au site de l'extension le message bad gateway 502 s'affiche.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Raven9000, a year agoConsider uninstalling the malicious Stylish extension. In 2016, with no input from the userbase, through some guy, pretending to be an independent developer, it basically was sold to a shady web analytics company, Similarweb. Since then, it is actively sharing your entire non-anonymized browsing history demo with them, assuming you ever clicked on one of the flashy "Agree" buttons. It initially did this without even asking for consent, and was banned from extension stores afterwards. Currently, it still breaks store policies, yet is not banned for unknown reasons. A safe alternative is Stylus.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12579719, a year ago