Reviews for Video DownloadHelper
Video DownloadHelper by vdh
Review by Firefox user 14195070
Rated 1 out of 5
by Firefox user 14195070, 8 years agoThis add-on uses deceptive and dishonest tactics to coerce users into buying license, as extensively described in many of these reviews: it deceptively converts all already free available high definition videos to a lower resolution, just to blackmail you that you have to pay if you want it back to its original, and freely available, high definition. This is not even clearly mentioned and unless you will read some of these reviews and many complaints on the internet, you will not know what's going on in the background. Go google for the QR code block and other complaints on this extension. But there is more: This extension has an extremely annoying popup that not even firefox or addons such as uOrigin or others will be able to block, any time there is an update. IT is extremely annoying because it steals the focus of whatever you are watching, be it a full screen movie or your bank website, or if you are in the middle of a transaction or booking a flight, etc., the violent and frankly useless window jumps with some "Congratulations" message that will disrupt you and certainly cause rage in many cases. The message is actually quite stupid because nobody on the planet will believe that he/she deserves to be "congratulated" for some code update. If every code in the computer would "congratulate" you in such way, computers would have die long time ago: You have hundreds of thousands of files, libraries and applications --free or otherwise-- that get updated every single minute every day. Shame on this developer, this is the kind of developers that don't care for user experience and do not want to be transparent. Look for alternatives. youtube-dl is great and youtube-dl-gui is the perfect partner. And there are more.
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- Rated 5 out of 5by clic4nix, 10 hours ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19846503, 13 hours ago
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- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 19846427, 14 hours ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19842278, 21 hours ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18444548, a day agoThe BEST video download helper out there! It never fails me! Very fast, so easy to install and use. No issues at all with the videos that are downloaded--all play back perfectly.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17130328, a day ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Schlela, 2 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by João Matheus, 2 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Wayne, 2 days agoEasy to use and provides seamless downloads. Works well on both Windows and Linux OS.
- Rated 5 out of 5by gregorymd, 2 days agoWorks well, easy to use, and haven't had any issues with any videos I've wanted to download so far
- Rated 5 out of 5by Benni_x3, 2 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Dank, 3 days agoThe Lifetime License is worth it! The developer has faithfully kept Video DownloadHelper updated on a regular basis.
The fact that it “simply works” is due to their ongoing maintenance and bug fixes.
This small application has been (and continues to be) a massive productivity booster for me. I can download lecture videos and tutorials for future offline use.
Thanks!! - Rated 5 out of 5by mijik, 3 days agoVideo Downloadhelper has been excellent, and even excelling further with the newest upgrade, version 10!!! It works even better than ever, and on more websites, sites that used to obstruct its functioning. I heartily recommend it!
- Rated 2 out of 5by TJ, 3 days agoSo we have to pay for unlimited downloading... There's other methods out there. This is the sellout one that you end up coming up with out of laziness. I really "liked" downloading stuff off youtube that wasn't available anywhere else. And I could download as much as I wanted. Well... Till recently. So... See you for now. Get better.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19838178, 3 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by vitorgo, 3 days agoIt works great on a not so well known website! Would be great if I could specify a time interval and download only that part, hopefully it would be faster.
- Rated 5 out of 5by SS, 3 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19837754, 3 days agoVideo Downloadhelper! Is simply the best!
I use it almost every day for more than 10 years. Sometimes download 20 or 30 videos, very fast and easy to use. Never had a problem. I am on payed subscription and when I had a question - VDH(author) answered within hours.
If you see lots of "5" and many "1" - it means "1" are competitors. I read complains - I never had any of problem they write about.
Video Downloadhelper is very stable and powerful!