Borderline useless now. So many people falsely marked red. I hate to uninstall it, but... this review is the last thing I'm going to do before I remove it.

Used to be an incredibly useful tool, these days someone marked red is just as likely to be intersex or nonbinary as an actual transphobe or TERF. Still functions okay-ish, but needing the level of attention it does defeats the point somewhat.

As a trans woman, this tool is a necessity and I will not be uninstalling it, but it has declined in its usefulness over the years. It's incredibly easy to brigade, and moderators who curate it are obviously biased because I have seen even other trans women get flagged as anti-trans for saying things someone disagreed with, who had a big enough following to dogpile her. I see intersex people who only ever talked about intersex issues get flagged red over straight up nothing. It's still somewhat useful as a reference point to investigate, but something rotten is happening and it's so disappointing and disheartening.

Lately it's been kind of inconsistent on the sources marked red ACTUALLY being in some way actively transphobic when it's on social/public platforms. Sometimes when I follow up on a marking it's accurate, and other times it's not at all. If certain sources simply went uncategorized that would make sense, but there have been multiple trans people marked red but confirmably not supporting any notable transphobic rhetoric (eg.transmed, transradfem).

This extension lost a lot of it's usefulness over the years, and the creator's bigotry wrecked it. However. I do think it has a tiny bit of usefulness left: Does this person have An Opinion on trans people. The color is Entirely irrelevant now, but it indicates someone has said Something in one way or another about the topic, so if you are considering following someone that has A Color, you know you should check first to see if your views align. That is as far as this extension goes now.

I'm not sure what happened to the review process, but there are a lot of incorrect assignments now, which is confusing. This add-on isn't very useful if you can't trust the data being provided.

I'm hoping that the dev team runs some quality assurance on the reviews soon before this gets out of hand and harder to resolve.

But currently, the incorrect data is a critical flaw and I can't trust it until this is fixed.

removing this from my browser. even when things started to go downhill around a year ago, which I certainly noticed, I kept this extension purely to mark actual terfs and transphobes. as more and more trans and intersex people were marked red, I kept the extension, trusting my own judgment over shinigami eyes. at this point I see no point in keeping the extension when half the time those marked red are actual transgender people.

it seems people on tumblr specifically, as perfectly trans- and intersex-friendly blogs are marked red, have been noticing the problems with shinigami eyes and now that other people are abandoning this extension I think it would be best for me to follow suit.

I'm grateful that other people are finally noticing the discrepancies with this extension. shame on the developer for giving the same weak, vague copy-pasted responses to accurate complaints. queer love forever

I used it for a while but it seems like it's not very useful anymore. I noticed many accounts tagged as red were accounts that never mentioned transgender issues in their entire existance... Possibly mis-reported?

It doesn't seem like this add-on has very good moderation, but again this might just be a mistake.

While I feel like this service can be helpful in certain instances, lately people have been abusing to target queer friendly people they don't agree with (often intersex folks, who's voices need to be heard in every discussion of queer liberation). It is very disappointing to see a service I formerly believed to be helpful and queer-friendly show it's true colors like this. I hope that the moderators rectify this mistake, as this service has been very helpful for me and others in the past. It is just sad to see it destroying it's own reputation by throwing vulnerable members of the queer community under the bus.

good extension for basic terf spotting but is often misused for targeting queer people who others don't like.

I can't in good consciousness rate this extension 1 star, because it genuinely has been useful to me in the past. However, I've been seeing more and more trans friendly accounts unmarked or even marked red simply for uplifting transmasc, nonbinary, and intersex voices. It would be one thing if this were simply a case of the 'phobes abusing the community mark feature i would be less concerned, but the developers have responded to similar reviews to mine to comfirm that this is the system working as intended, and that many of these false marks were manually placed by the moderation team. This is frankly unacceptable in any application that calls itself progressive, let alone something that has, in the past, been as useful to online safety as Shinigami Eyes.

I'm leaving a two star rating for these reasons. I will continue recommending this extension, but only after a conversation about these drawbacks and how they only further the goals of the very people who make products like this necessary to a safe online experience. It is shameful to see you walk down this path, and I can only hope that eventually the devs and moderators will see the error in their ways and begin working, once again, towards a better world.

Used to be incredibly useful to help keep myself safe, but now is actively promoting weird exclusionist queer discourse by marking random trans and intersex users anti-trans for opinions the devs seemingly just don't agree with (intersex exclusive labels, stuff about transandrophobia, stuff that doesn't make someone anti-trans in any way really). This no longer helps keep me safe and actively goes against what its original goal was. A depressing turn of events considering the state of the world.

You cannot rely on this extension (or anything like it, for that matter) to replace personal research and critical thinking.

The political biases of the creators with regards to who is part of the trans community, what is or is not transphobic, what language is or is not appropriate, etc. directly impact the TOS and intended purpose of this extension, so if your politics diverge at all (which they likely will, just because of how many stances there are to have), labels on accounts and pages may mislead you.

On top of this, users can and do falsely flag accounts as trans-friendly or transphobic (I've personally been marked friendly before for simply being part of a trans-positive group which is not what the label is meant to mean, but this feature can also easily be used maliciously), and high numbers of people using the extension results in false or misleading flags having a huge impact on the amount of engagement a user gets, which homogenises what LGBT+ talking points and perspectives get seen online.

Extensions such as this can be handy at times, but without attached explanation for why a user is marked the way they are, it acts less like an informative tool and more like a prosthetic gut instinct with someone else's biases baked into it instead of your own.

I'm personally removing this extension in response to a blog that should qualify for the trans-friendly label being irreversably marked as transphobic by the creators due to political disagreement, likely on the specifics of the relationship between the intersex and transgender communities. The blog owner does a lot of really important outreach and IRL community work, and has unique and important perspectives that a lot of people will no longer engage with because of the false label.

It was nice to have quick information to look to when something didn't quite sit right with me because I have a lot of trouble trusting my own instincts, but on further meditation I'm not OK with a tool like this deciding how I should feel for me.

If you do choose to install the extension, please consider its labels an invitation to inspect further and figure out why that label is there, instead of simply taking it as an objective marker of who is or is not safe. Nobody can judge what is or is not safe for you except yourself.

This started off as a great concept but has essentially become useless due to the attitudes of the dev(s?) reflecting an incredibly closed-minded view of what transness is. Do not trust this extension's markings in the slightest - it used to be a good indicator (taken with a grain of salt of course) but is now no better than throwing a dart blindfolded. If someone makes a fork that fixes these issues (perhaps something like ublock has where you can add other people's lists) I would love to use it as the concept of the community helping each other is very helpful.

Pretty neat, would be better if the people behind it weren't intersexist and transmisandrist. Two stars because it's marginally better than nothing right now, fix this and yourselves doofs.

transandrophobia and theres been a lot of false positives lately that cant be changed back to green for some reason

Recent infighting has made this extension far less reliable. Trans people mark other trans people red for petty reasons constantly. It's really frustrating to have to gamble on if a red name is gonna have literal hate speech when you double check or if they just got into a fight with the wrong person.

I still think it's worth using, but you can't take any highlights at face value. You have to verify for yourself (which means you have to expose yourself to transphobia a whole lot). Better than nothing, but I really wish it wasn't treated like it's infallible. It's not.

Used to be good but now people are using this extension for completely stupid reasons such as marking other trans people and intersex people as 'anti-trans' for the crime of- *checks notes* talking about their own experiences?

I won't stop using this extension as it can be useful- but I may take that back if stuff like this continues.

Honestly, while I use this add-on more to mark stuff myself, and it is useful for that; I cannot actively support the creator of it since she seems to be perfectly fine with transphobia directed at Trans men, mascs, and nonbinary people. And as well as fine with intersexism (sexism directed to intersex individuals). Several times this extension has marked people green who are spewing transphobic rhetoric of other trans people, but then mark red trans men and intersex people speaking to their own oppression and lived experiences. Genuinely, it is disheartening seeing a creator of what should be a trans friendly extension- be grossly transphobic and intersexist to the very people they claim to 'protect'.

Extremely hit-or-miss nowadays. Intersexist people are randomly marked green while actual trans-friendly and transgender people (like MYSELF) get marked red. This extension needs to be remade with more robust vetting policies.