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I've tried a few extensions, but so often get "video not found" or something similar. All the 4+ star rated extensions seem to have fake reviews because none of the ones I've tried actually work. At the moment, I'm having to use different websites to download videos from each source, saveinsta, storysaver, fbdown, etc. It's driving me crazy having to do the captcha thing every time I want to download something, and I'm sure these websites are probably sketchy and full of malware, data collection, etc.

Can anyone recommend an extension I could add that will actually find and download videos from twitter, facebook, instagram, tiktok, etc?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Video download helped (red/yellow/blue ball icon) is the real deal

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's driving me crazy having to do the captcha thing every time I want to download something, and I'm sure these websites are probably sketchy and full of malware, data collection, etc.

Then you should install Ublock Origin extension. There are many download extensions that should work if you search the chrome store, but they constantly break because the sites don't want them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I use Ublock. It can be used to block captchas? What script do I use to do that?