Reviews for PrintFriendly - Print, PDF, and Screenshot
PrintFriendly - Print, PDF, and Screenshot by Print Friendly & PDF
78 reviews
- Rated 1 out of 5by Eling, 2 days agoIn the latest version 6.9.8, the extension suddenly needs some new permissions:
"The developer says the extension will collect: browsing activity, personal communications, personally identifying information."
They don't even have anything to say in their changelog about this update (it's literally empty). This is very concerning. I'm disabling the extension and staying on the previous version 6.7.10 for the time being, while looking for alternative.Developer response
posted 7 hours agoThanks for raising this concern. You’re right that we should have explained the permission changes more clearly.
The alarming permission categories came entirely from one feature: Email this page, which needed access to pass along the recipient’s email address. We’ve removed that feature. PrintFriendly has never requested financial information, health data, your location, or login information.
We’re rebuilding the email feature in a more privacy-friendly way so the extension won’t need access to contacts or messages. We appreciate you calling this out, and your feedback helped us improve both the permissions and how we communicate changes. - Rated 1 out of 5by Mirinda, 2 days agoTe pide datos inimaginables en la última actualización. Muy mal asunto.
Gracias por la pronta aclaración por parte del desarrollador. Estaré atento a la publicación de las revisiones que se hacen mención para poder cotejar las funciones y recuperar mi confianza en esta magnífica extensión hasta ahora.Developer response
posted 2 days agoGracias por comentarlo, entendemos la preocupación. Firefox ahora exige que las extensiones etiqueten cada categoría de datos que pueden tocar, y por eso apareció esa lista en la última actualización. Queremos ser claros: PrintFriendly nunca solicitó información financiera ni de pago, ni datos de salud, ubicación o inicio de sesión.
Las dos categorías que más alarman, información identificativa y comunicaciones personales, venían de una sola función, "enviar la página por correo," que la hemos eliminado. Ahora la extensión solo pide lo que una herramienta de impresión y PDF necesita: el contenido de la página que imprimes y su dirección, para generar el PDF. Solo lee la página cuando haces clic en el botón y no rastrea tu navegación.
Además, vamos a traer de vuelta el correo de forma más respetuosa con la privacidad, con el envío gestionado en printfriendly.com para que la extensión no maneje tus contactos ni tus mensajes. Si actualizas a la versión 6.9.9, cuando esté disponible, verás la solicitud reducida a esos dos elementos esenciales. Gracias por ayudarnos a mejorar. - Rated 1 out of 5by 1m8, 3 days agoAtrocious new permissions, full browser activity, identifying information, without scope, Financial and payment information. Examples: contact information like name and address, email and phone number, as well as other identifying data such as ID numbers, voice or video recordings, age, demographic information or biometric data. Examples: emails, text or chat messages, social media posts and data from phone calls and conference calls.
Developer response
posted 2 days agoThank you for raising this, and we want to be precise about it. PrintFriendly never requested financial or payment information, health data, your location, or login information. None of those were ever part of the extension.
The list showed four categories. The two with the alarming descriptions you quoted, identifying information and personal communications, came entirely from one feature: "email this page," which passed along a recipient's address to send the page. We've removed that feature. The extension now requests only what a print and PDF tool needs to do its job: the content of the page you're printing, and that page's address so our service can generate the PDF. It reads a page only when you click the button, it doesn't run in the background, and it doesn't track your browsing.
We're also rebuilding email in a more privacy-friendly way, with the sending handled on printfriendly.com so the extension never touches contacts or messages, and it'll be back soon. If you update to 6.9.9, once it's live (it's under review right now), you'll see the request reduced to those two essentials. We appreciate you holding us to a high bar here. - Rated 1 out of 5by crankyfranky, 10 days agoPerforms worse than the built in browser. Atrocious privacy policy. They collect IP, urls, and other data about you and they will sell your information. Not opensource. This add-on belongs only on the chrome webstore where proprietary software with spyware and adware behavior is not only expected but has been normalized.
Developer response
posted 10 days agoThanks for the feedback. We want to clarify that we do not sell users’ personal information. We understand that privacy is important, and we aim to be transparent about our data practices in our privacy policy.
We’re sorry to hear that PrintFriendly performed worse than your browser’s built-in printing features in your experience. We appreciate you taking the time to share your perspective. - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14609268, 2 months agoCompletely worthless. Save time and look elsewhere. Does not have any effect or control over images. You'd expect a nice simple toolbar button for Images ON/OFF. Nope, complicated interface which doesn't affect anything.
Developer response
posted 2 months agoThanks for your feedback. You can click the Style button at the top of the page to remove images. - Rated 1 out of 5by JMA75, 5 months agoyou said in another review that the extension don't ask to set an account, well it did for me. i didnt even try the extension because of this
Developer response
posted 5 months agoThanks for your feedback. We do not require users to create an account to use the extension. There is an option to create one, but it is completely optional.
If you are still running into this, please feel free to email me directly at blaine@printfriendly.com and I will help get it sorted out. - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13715401, 6 months agoКакаха какая-то. Ссылка подтверждения с почты не открывается!
Developer response
posted 6 months agoSorry you're having trouble. Could you please contact me directly at blaine@printfriendly.com. I'll help you resolve the issue. Developer response
posted 9 months agoThanks for your feedback. I'd love to better understand what issue you're encountering. Could you please contact me directly at blaine@printfriendly.com?- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 12521173, a year agoAnother useless clean print extension that does nothing of what it says. Completely broken, cannot even read webpages correctly. Mozilla really needs to clean up its extension marketplace.
Developer response
posted a year agoThanks for your feedback. Could you please contact me at blaine@printfriendly.com? I'd like to try to get this issue resolved for you. - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 19005778, a year agoAnother Printfriendly piece of junk. It wouldn't install. Then there were timeout errors. Then there were sign-in procedures. Guess what? I don't want to contact your support team. I didn't want to install an add-on. I don't want to reinstall. I just wanted to save an article so I could read it later. But to do that, I had to jump through a bunch of hoops. Just forget it.
Developer response
posted a year agoThanks for your feedback. Could you please contact me at blaine@printfriendly.com and include an example URL you were having an issue with? We don't require signing in to use the extension. I'd like to try to get this issue resolved for you. Developer response
posted a year agoMerci pour votre commentaire. Pourriez-vous me contacter à l'adresse blaine@printfriendly.com et me fournir un exemple d'URL avec laquelle vous avez rencontré un problème ? J'aimerais essayer de résoudre ce problème.- Rated 1 out of 5by Kaycek, a year agoThe extension has stopped working and is instead bringing up a browser control window.
When it worked it was wonderful to have and did a good job of getting the page printed for formattingDeveloper response
posted a year agoThanks for your feedback. Could you please contact me at blaine@printfriendly.com and include an example URL you were having an issue with? I'd like to try to get this issue resolved for you. - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 17198077, a year agoThis software is buggy. It takes several steps to generate a pdf. More often than not, it locks up, thinks that I am not human and refuses to print anything. This application requires a lot of technical fixes behind the scenes, and it needs a simpler, ONE STEP interface, not going through multiple screens to print a BNI podcast. Downloading the app did not help. The pages that show up are cluttered, and not as cleaned as they claim.
Developer response
posted a year agoThanks for your feedback. Could you please contact me at blaine@printfriendly.com and include an example URL you were having an issue with? I'd like to try to get this issue resolved for you. - Rated 1 out of 5by Focus Embedded, 2 years agoSimply doesn't work. Yeah, I'm back on Win7. But still, it's supposed to work for Firefox. And it doesn't. It simply barfs every time.
- Rated 1 out of 5by ivYuki.ofc, 2 years ago2 years ago this addon was definitely great. But now it just makes a pdf, that's at least double the amount of pages, as printing direct from the browser..
- Rated 1 out of 5by osarduy, 2 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by nobler, 2 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by David, 3 years agoText is unreadable. Words are placed on top of other words and too complicated to figure out why.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Dr. Phoenix, 3 years agoNow it asks to accept or decline privacy, but the extension will only work by accepting everything because the formatting of that screen is obscenely wrong. I'll look for something else!
- Rated 1 out of 5by Fabiolous, 3 years agoNow it asks to accept or decline privacy, but the extension will only work by accepting everything because the formatting of that screen is obscenely wrong. I'll look for something else!
- Rated 1 out of 5by Rcom, 3 years agoTries to circumvent NoScript.
Tries to collect data for "partners", yes you can disable this, but the dialogue shows up only, if you disable NoScript for the tab (NoGo). - Rated 1 out of 5by Art Saldivar, 3 years agoUnable to download the web link as I’m in Firefox and app is unable to recognize I’m in Firefox. Frustrating!
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13478936, 3 years agoextension button in FF 15.0.2 does not work (there is simply no button)
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13538331, 3 years agoSince Uprgrade to Windows 11 some months ago, Print with System dialoge does not work any more with Print Friendly (Firefox). Although the problem has been reported immediately and there were several updates of Windows 11, Firefox and (presumably) Print Friendly, this problem has not been fixed. Supposedly Microsoft has changed the interface to "Pront with system dialogue" and Print Friendly has not been upgraded to support the change. I need that because I often do not want to print the whole but only some specific pages. Pages cannot be specified with Print Firendly directly. As a consequence, I have to print into PDF and select the pages wanted later. A lot of additional work.