Is Return YouTube Dislike safe?
Return YouTube Dislike assigns each user a persistent ID and sends it alongside video IDs and vote choices to its own API.
On first install, the extension generates a random 36-character user ID and stores it in sync storage. Each time a YouTube video loads, it sends the video ID and like count to returnyoutubedislikeapi.com; when the user votes, it sends the persistent user ID, video ID, and vote value together. Because the same ID is used across sessions, the API accumulates a pseudonymous record linking the user's vote history across videos.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 4.0.6. Asking for a permission is not a finding on its own - it is what the extension can do if it chooses to.
Read and change your data on youtube.com
*://*.youtube.com/*
Read and change your data on returnyoutubedislikeapi.com
*://returnyoutubedislikeapi.com/*
Act on the current tab, but only after you click the extension
activeTab
Store data in your browser
storage
Sign you in with your Google account
identity
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Return YouTube Dislike 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.
- returnyoutubedislikeapi.com
Return YouTube Dislike sends data to returnyoutubedislikeapi.com. 10 other extensions we have analyzed send data here.