Is Annotations Restored for YouTube™ safe?

Clean risk

Displays archived YouTube annotations on older videos when available.

This extension automatically looks online for archived annotation files for the current YouTube video and shows them in the player if found. It also lets you load a locally saved annotation XML file into the current video from the popup. The description states it needs access to www.youtube.com to place annotations in the video player.

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Who publishes it

isaackd - 1 other listing from the same operator, none carrying a finding

What this publisher told the store about itself, and the other listings that told it the same thing.

Same store account

1 other listing published from this account, 3k+ users between them, none of them carrying a finding.

AI-generated. Findings may contain errors. Those marked Verified have been manually reviewed.

Publishers can request a review.

What it can do

Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 1.2.1. Asking for a permission is not a finding on its own - it is what the extension can do if it chooses to.

  • Store data in your browser

    storage

Where it sends data

Destinations our analysis observed Annotations Restored for YouTube™ contacting. Sending data somewhere is not a finding on its own - an extension that syncs your settings has to talk to its own server - but it is where your data can go, and who else it goes to.

  • www.youtube.comwidely used

    Annotations Restored for YouTube™ sends data to www.youtube.com. A widely used service: 50 other extensions we have analyzed send data here.

Updated 30 September 2026daabpdmgkghdbfljmeahnplkcldbeefg