Is Video (M3U8/MP4/HLS) Downloader Assistant safe?

Clean risk

Video (M3U8/MP4/HLS) Downloader Assistant collects media URLs and page metadata, then sends selected items to m3u8-player.net.

It runs on all sites and watches network responses plus page video elements to record detected media URLs, content type, size, titles, thumbnails, and source page URLs in local extension storage. When a user clicks Play or Download in the popup, it opens m3u8-player.net with the selected media URL, page title, thumbnail, source page URL, and media type in query parameters.

tianweiv1.2.2Chrome Web Store
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Who publishes it

tianwei - no other listings under this identity

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

Publisher
tianwei
Registered address
yuhang, 杭州市, 浙江省 310000, CN
Registered contact
tianwei

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Where it sends data

Destinations our analysis observed Video (M3U8/MP4/HLS) Downloader Assistant 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.

  • m3u8-player.net

    Video (M3U8/MP4/HLS) Downloader Assistant sends data to m3u8-player.net. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.

Updated 30 September 2026ggmfkhdenbaaljmoemblfmbiegioacka