Reviews for Substital
Substital by Gaëtan Covelli
Response by Gaëtan Covelli
Developer response
posted 2 years agoHi! We understand your concern, and it's a very valid one. Unfortunately we need these permissions for Substital to work properly. But as we move to Manifest V3, we would like to find ways to not need these permissions anymore. Moreover, as I said in other replies, a lot of popular browser extensions are also using the same permission as Substital:
AdBlocker Ultimate: Access your data for all websites
Grammarly: Access your data for all websites
LastPass Password Manager: Access your data for all websites
uBlock Origin: Access your data for all websites
To be noted: those extensions even require a lot more permissions than Substital for example. Some extensions can be complex and unfortunately those permissions are required.
To clarify, we inject Substital (elements in the page to detect the videos, to choose and load subtitles, to modify subtitles settings etc.) only when the user interacts with the Substital extension icon on the top right of the browser, unlike other extensions where scripts are automatically injected in the pages without any user interaction, or without the user even knowing. This is what we meant by "Substital is passive by default...".
As for the notes about the monitoring by Mozilla; for each new update, it is required for us to provide and upload the entire source code. The Mozilla team has always access to the entire source code of the extension. The source must be clear, readable, and nothing must be minified or hidden. And they DO monitor it, as we sometimes have to fix some issues they find.
There's absolutely no way to hide anything in the extension from the Mozilla team. The way the process works is that they build the extension on their side using the entire source code we provided to them, and they compare it with the packaged extension we submitted to the store. If it differs even by a tiny bit, they would reach out to us.
I hope I answered your interrogation. And happy to answer any question you may have :)
AdBlocker Ultimate: Access your data for all websites
Grammarly: Access your data for all websites
LastPass Password Manager: Access your data for all websites
uBlock Origin: Access your data for all websites
To be noted: those extensions even require a lot more permissions than Substital for example. Some extensions can be complex and unfortunately those permissions are required.
To clarify, we inject Substital (elements in the page to detect the videos, to choose and load subtitles, to modify subtitles settings etc.) only when the user interacts with the Substital extension icon on the top right of the browser, unlike other extensions where scripts are automatically injected in the pages without any user interaction, or without the user even knowing. This is what we meant by "Substital is passive by default...".
As for the notes about the monitoring by Mozilla; for each new update, it is required for us to provide and upload the entire source code. The Mozilla team has always access to the entire source code of the extension. The source must be clear, readable, and nothing must be minified or hidden. And they DO monitor it, as we sometimes have to fix some issues they find.
There's absolutely no way to hide anything in the extension from the Mozilla team. The way the process works is that they build the extension on their side using the entire source code we provided to them, and they compare it with the packaged extension we submitted to the store. If it differs even by a tiny bit, they would reach out to us.
I hope I answered your interrogation. And happy to answer any question you may have :)
105 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17945762, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15798084, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by DogancanYr, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Osmanthus, 3 months agoVery convenient to lookup or upload subtitles, good ability to customize the look of the subtitles, great delay options
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17222309, 4 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Ryan Uchiha, 4 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14088276, 4 months agoThe best add-on, I highly recommend it. Many thanks to the developer, keep up the good work!
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 17448020, 5 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Rafael Cordeiro, 5 months agoIt was very good, but since a few weeks ago, it started asking to become a VIP member of opensubtitles, and it wont load any subtitles at all. Devs, can you fix this?
- Rated 4 out of 5by yardsards, 5 months agoExtremely useful add-on. An absolute life-saver for me as a disabled person. However, the search for subtitles feature no longer works, just asks to become a VIP member of opensubtitles. Perhaps find a different provider to source your subtitles from?
- Rated 5 out of 5by AWAT-IR, 5 months agothaaaaaanks your add-on is the only way I can host movie nights without having to download each video I want to stream. Thank you so much
- Rated 5 out of 5by vimehemii, 6 months agoI can't thank you enough. Your add-on has helped me breach the language barrier in my long distance relationship and thanks to you, we can enjoy all kinds of movies together, whether in English, Japanese or any other language. As Japanese-subbed movies and TV shows are incredibly hard to find online, your add-on is the only way I can host movie nights without having to download each video I want to stream. Thank you so much for making my life easier. Lots of love and happy holidays!
- Rated 3 out of 5by Cyber Ceel, 7 months agoSadly I have to edit my 5 star review because since some time in December, this extension no longer works properly. No matter what subtitles you select, the only subtitle that you get is a subscription demand for some subtitle site.
Very unfortunate, it was working perfectly before.
Update Feb 2024: Substital now works again but is subject to the opensubtitles API limit. Not ideal, but it's something. - Rated 5 out of 5by The Sighing Dutchman, 7 months agoExcellent add-on!
It does exactly what i need it to do.
I tried another one before this, but that one failed on all fronts.
(+Sub i believe it was called, not sure though) - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18003467, 10 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Mar2ck, 10 months agoWorks well for youtube. I use whisper-ctranslate2 to generate subtitles for Youtube videos and this extension lets me use those subtitles directly in the browser.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Jorge, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by erdgadg, a year ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 17916458, a year agoworks well, only issue is that you can't save synchronization settings so you have to always put it again when next episode starts which is annoying, also option to move the subtitles would be great.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Gaia, a year agoTotally did not understand how the heck this should work. The add-on shows that there's a video running, I click for the subs, nothing happens. Repeated again and again and again, still nothing happened. Basically useless.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17309351, a year ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 17794830, a year agoWhen i pick to upload my own subtitles, they always flicker. I want to use downloaded Japanese subtitles but the flickering is too bad. I'll update the review if tell me how to fix this.