Recensioni per Substital
Substital di Gaëtan Covelli
Risposta di Gaëtan Covelli
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pubblicato il 3 anni faHi! We understand your concern, and it's a very valid one. Unfortunately we need these permissions for Substital to work properly. But as we move to Manifest V3, we would like to find ways to not need these permissions anymore. Moreover, as I said in other replies, a lot of popular browser extensions are also using the same permission as Substital:
AdBlocker Ultimate: Access your data for all websites
Grammarly: Access your data for all websites
LastPass Password Manager: Access your data for all websites
uBlock Origin: Access your data for all websites
To be noted: those extensions even require a lot more permissions than Substital for example. Some extensions can be complex and unfortunately those permissions are required.
To clarify, we inject Substital (elements in the page to detect the videos, to choose and load subtitles, to modify subtitles settings etc.) only when the user interacts with the Substital extension icon on the top right of the browser, unlike other extensions where scripts are automatically injected in the pages without any user interaction, or without the user even knowing. This is what we meant by "Substital is passive by default...".
As for the notes about the monitoring by Mozilla; for each new update, it is required for us to provide and upload the entire source code. The Mozilla team has always access to the entire source code of the extension. The source must be clear, readable, and nothing must be minified or hidden. And they DO monitor it, as we sometimes have to fix some issues they find.
There's absolutely no way to hide anything in the extension from the Mozilla team. The way the process works is that they build the extension on their side using the entire source code we provided to them, and they compare it with the packaged extension we submitted to the store. If it differs even by a tiny bit, they would reach out to us.
I hope I answered your interrogation. And happy to answer any question you may have :)
AdBlocker Ultimate: Access your data for all websites
Grammarly: Access your data for all websites
LastPass Password Manager: Access your data for all websites
uBlock Origin: Access your data for all websites
To be noted: those extensions even require a lot more permissions than Substital for example. Some extensions can be complex and unfortunately those permissions are required.
To clarify, we inject Substital (elements in the page to detect the videos, to choose and load subtitles, to modify subtitles settings etc.) only when the user interacts with the Substital extension icon on the top right of the browser, unlike other extensions where scripts are automatically injected in the pages without any user interaction, or without the user even knowing. This is what we meant by "Substital is passive by default...".
As for the notes about the monitoring by Mozilla; for each new update, it is required for us to provide and upload the entire source code. The Mozilla team has always access to the entire source code of the extension. The source must be clear, readable, and nothing must be minified or hidden. And they DO monitor it, as we sometimes have to fix some issues they find.
There's absolutely no way to hide anything in the extension from the Mozilla team. The way the process works is that they build the extension on their side using the entire source code we provided to them, and they compare it with the packaged extension we submitted to the store. If it differs even by a tiny bit, they would reach out to us.
I hope I answered your interrogation. And happy to answer any question you may have :)
109 recensioni
- Valutata 5 su 5di zihad, un mese fa
- Valutata 5 su 5di Homar H, un mese faThis add-on was exactly what I was looking for, thank you!
There's one detail I noticed while using it: while the video can play perfectly fine and the subtitles are synced and visible, the progress bar doesn't seem to be advancing at all, it gets stuck in the beginning. - Valutata 5 su 5di Utente Firefox 18457109, 4 mesi fa
- Valutata 5 su 5di Łukasz, 4 mesi fa
- Valutata 5 su 5di Utente Firefox 17945762, 5 mesi fa
- Valutata 5 su 5di Utente Firefox 15798084, 5 mesi fa
- Valutata 5 su 5di DogancanYr, 7 mesi fa
- Valutata 5 su 5di Osmanthus, 7 mesi faVery convenient to lookup or upload subtitles, good ability to customize the look of the subtitles, great delay options
- Valutata 5 su 5di Utente Firefox 17222309, 7 mesi fa
- Valutata 5 su 5di Ryan Uchiha, 8 mesi fa
- Valutata 5 su 5di Utente Firefox 14088276, 8 mesi faThe best add-on, I highly recommend it. Many thanks to the developer, keep up the good work!
- Valutata 3 su 5di Utente Firefox 17448020, 8 mesi fa
- Valutata 1 su 5di Rafael Cordeiro, 9 mesi faIt was very good, but since a few weeks ago, it started asking to become a VIP member of opensubtitles, and it wont load any subtitles at all. Devs, can you fix this?
- Valutata 4 su 5di yardsards, 9 mesi faExtremely useful add-on. An absolute life-saver for me as a disabled person. However, the search for subtitles feature no longer works, just asks to become a VIP member of opensubtitles. Perhaps find a different provider to source your subtitles from?
- Valutata 5 su 5di AWAT-IR, 9 mesi fathaaaaaanks your add-on is the only way I can host movie nights without having to download each video I want to stream. Thank you so much
- Valutata 5 su 5di vimehemii, 9 mesi faI can't thank you enough. Your add-on has helped me breach the language barrier in my long distance relationship and thanks to you, we can enjoy all kinds of movies together, whether in English, Japanese or any other language. As Japanese-subbed movies and TV shows are incredibly hard to find online, your add-on is the only way I can host movie nights without having to download each video I want to stream. Thank you so much for making my life easier. Lots of love and happy holidays!
- Valutata 3 su 5di Cyber Ceel, 10 mesi faSadly I have to edit my 5 star review because since some time in December, this extension no longer works properly. No matter what subtitles you select, the only subtitle that you get is a subscription demand for some subtitle site.
Very unfortunate, it was working perfectly before.
Update Feb 2024: Substital now works again but is subject to the opensubtitles API limit. Not ideal, but it's something. - Valutata 5 su 5di The Sighing Dutchman, un anno faExcellent add-on!
It does exactly what i need it to do.
I tried another one before this, but that one failed on all fronts.
(+Sub i believe it was called, not sure though) - Valutata 5 su 5di Utente Firefox 18003467, un anno fa
- Valutata 5 su 5di Mar2ck, un anno faWorks well for youtube. I use whisper-ctranslate2 to generate subtitles for Youtube videos and this extension lets me use those subtitles directly in the browser.
- Valutata 5 su 5di Jorge, un anno fa
- Valutata 5 su 5di erdgadg, un anno fa