The newly required Lifetime License fee to remove the QR code should be fairly priced at $4.99

The 'Red Pill' Reality: the 'engine' doing the heavy lifting (downloading & converting) is still just FFmpeg, which is free, open-source software built by volunteers. You are essentially paying $30 for lifetime access to a dashboard that drives a free car.

To be fair to the Developer: Paul and his team built a very polished Link Sniffer and a nice UI. They also updated the 'Companion App' to handle HLS streams smoothly. For a non-technical user, this convenience has some value.

Why $4.99 is the fair price: You are paying for the convenience of not using a command line. That is worth a cup of coffee ($5), not the price of a full premium indie video game ($30).

How to do it yourself for free (The steps they don't want you to know): If you have 5 minutes, you can replicate this 'Premium' functionality for $0:

Option A (Web-based & Clean): Use cobalt[dot]tools. Unlike other sites, it has NO ads and NO trackers. (Pro Tip: Smart users run uBlock Origin anyway, which makes the free web safer than many paid apps).

Option B (Power User):

Install 'The Stream Detector' (Firefox addon) to sniff the links just like this extension does.

Click it -> select 'Copy yt-dlp command'.

Paste that into your terminal with yt-dlp (free open source).

A premium UI but the 'magic' is free elsewhere. Save your money unless you are allergic to keyboards.

trash lure Freemium app

Mit jedem verfluchten Firefox update geht die Registrierung flöten ... Ich habe schon bezahlt und werde es kein zweites mal tun ... Thema durch. entfernen fertig Ich hab da keinen Bock mehr drauf.

I just hate the crappy and annoying humongous QR code watermark.

Works for a while then quits downloading but doesn't give a reason why. It just keeps saying download failed. Then it started demanding I buy a conversion license. Not wasting any more time with it.

Completely useless. Had to install extra software just for it to work, and then once I'd done that, it slaps a massive QR code on the downloaded video.

Hasn't been updated, but seems to have included a timed plan to spring on people to force payment with a QR code watermark now. Scammy crap.

Complete scam thanks to the recent ad and watermark rework.

If you had a patreon or Kofi I certainly would have chipped in a few dollars as thanks. But this makes it completely unusable. So no, screw you, and bring back the older version.

I'm joining the ever increasing crowd of people downgrading their rating of this now useless app. Used to be great and easy to use. Then a watermark and conversion tool required at a price for high quality downloads. Lo-res was still available. Now you cannot download at any quality without the intrusive watermark. But the straw that broke the camel's back for me is that now every download is in German.
1 Star and happy to remove from my extentions.

Not free. Adds a very large useless QR code box to videos

Lame. You can download almost no videos with the free version. Always need a (paying) companion. I forgot why a ditched it, now i remember...

I got an email from Mozilla regarding this extension

"Hello,

Thank you for your report about the following add-on on Mozilla Add-ons: Video DownloadHelper.

We reviewed your report and the content in question, and found that it violates Mozilla's policies, and have therefore requested the developer make changes. If they do not update their content to correct the violation, we will remove it."

One star for having to use a third party program to have to download, and then he pulled the rug on everyone and put a big QR code in the videos saying you have to buy it now, it's a scam.

Puts a huge QR Code on a downloaded video, asking for you to get a license. Use FOSS Software, not this repackaged junk.

This used to be a really good addon. It has become adware apparently with a big qr code added to any downloaded video. I however never got that far to notice since it crashes every tab that is showing a stream that is widevine drm protected after a while, even when you're not using it. When I found this addon to be the culprit I just uninstalled it. There are better alternatives.

This now adds a big fat QR code to all downloaded videos, because it wants you to pay for a converter. Just one problem: I didn't ask it to convert anything, just download. I've used this for years, but now I got a train ride ahead of me and all my videos are 20% QR code.

Absolute bait extension.
Donwloaded it, tried to use, asked for a third party program.
Then after installing the program, about 40% of the video it downloaded was a huge QRcode = video is half gone, want no QRcode? pay up, nah...
Ty no ty., I'd rather download the ocasional video manually.

one of most Fattest QR code known to man. i'll pass on this one champ.