[tor-talk] Download Helper

[mick]

On Fri, 3 Jan 2014 21:10:59 +0000
Nunostc <nunostc at yahoo.com> allegedly wrote:

> A thing I normally do when browsing the web using Debian that does no
> support HTML5 is install the plugin Download Helper to download the
> videos so I can watch them offline. That works very good. I would like
> to know if there is any risk using Download Helper? 
> 
> Here is the link to the plugin:
> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/video-downloadhelper/
> 

Adding /any/ untested/untrusted browser addon to torbrowser or tails
is generally considered a bad idea. See
https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq.html.en#TBBOtherExtensions

And in the case of this specific extension it might be particularly
unwise. I haven't used this for a while, but ISTR that when I last
tried it it appeared to call home when in use. Others may be able to
confirm/deny this.

Best

Mick 
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