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This extension is historically labeled as malware, but the current version analysis does not yet confirm severe malicious findings.Extension: Video Downloader for U

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Video Downloader for U

ID: dkbccihpiccbcheieabdbjikohfdfaje

Supported Languages

🇪🇹Amharic

🇸🇦Arabic

🇧🇩Bengali

🇧🇷Brazilian Portuguese

🇬🇧British English

🇧🇬Bulgarian

🇪🇸Catalan

🇨🇳Chinese (Simplified)

🇹🇼Chinese (Traditional)

🇭🇷Croatian

🇨🇿Czech

🇩🇰Danish

🇳🇱Dutch

🇺🇸English

🇪🇪Estonian

🇵🇭Filipino

🇫🇮Finnish

🇫🇷French

🇩🇪German

🇬🇷Greek

🇮🇳Gujarati

🇮🇱Hebrew

🇭🇺Hungarian

🇮🇩Indonesian

🇮🇹Italian

🇯🇵Japanese

🇰🇷Korean

🇲🇽Latin American Spanish

🇱🇻Latvian

🇱🇹Lithuanian

🇮🇳Malayalam

🇮🇳Marathi

🇳🇴Norwegian

🇮🇷Persian

🇵🇱Polish

🇵🇹Portuguese

🇷🇴Romanian

🇷🇸Serbian

🇸🇰Slovak

🇸🇮Slovenian

🇪🇸Spanish

🇸🇪Swedish

🇮🇳Tamil

🇮🇳Telugu

🇹🇷Turkish

🇺🇸US English

🇻🇳Vietnamese

Extension Info & Metadata

Status

Active

Version

1.1.4

Size

0.20 MB

Rating

3.9/5

Reviews

474

Users

90,000

Type

Extension

Updated

Nov 27, 2025

Publisher Contextual Analysis

Trusted

Author: https://videounit.net/View Profile
Privacy: Privacy Policy
MX records exist: Yes
Domain exists: Yes
Is disposable: No
Is role-based: No
Mailbox exists: Yes
Website: Visit

Total Extensions

Active

Obsolete

Listed

Unlisted

Total Users

90,000

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Video downloader extension allows users to save videos from various online platforms in just a few clicks. Save videos for free.

Video Downloader for U is a powerful extension for the Chrome browser to save videos from popular video hubs. This tool is the easiest and fastest way to save online videos from mainstream websites. Run saved video later at any time even without an internet connection. Save files and share with friends funny moments. Keep downloaded files on your PC for future watching. Find and download online videos from different sources and gather your own collection of music clips, funny cats, or fitness workouts. Take videos with yourself and run them offline at any time. Training videos or jokes from websites, exciting travels from Vimeo, or even entertainment once, all these and even more are available now for online downloading. Video downloaders have become an increasingly popular way to save videos from various online platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Vimeo, Dailymotion, and others. These platforms offer an endless stream of engaging videos, from news clips to viral memes and music videos. However, most of these platforms do not have a built-in download feature, which makes it challenging to save videos offline for future reference. One of the essential features of a video downloader extension is the ability to download videos from multiple platforms. For example, Facebook, Twitter, Vimeo, and Dailymotion are some of the most popular video-sharing platforms, and users may want to save videos from any of these platforms. Please note: - some web pages need you to start playing the video first to help this video downloader find it. - due to the privacy policies and terms of use of Google and YouTube, videos are not downloaded from YouTube. However, you can use it to download and save any video you want on many other websites. Use video downloader for free without any registration.

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7 versions released in this period

Rating Count

Total: 401 ratings

Average Rating

Current: 4.24 / 5.0+4.24

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Medium2

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Showing 1 of 11 scanned versions with more than one unique finding. Counts are unique findings that include each version.

Extension Version	Code Review Findings
1.1.3 Code review	8

Extension Version	Code Review Findings
1.1.3	8

Files with findings

4 distinct paths — top paths by unique finding count:

background.js3
content.js3
interceptor.js1
manifest.json1

S.No.	Category	Severity	File	Summary	Found in Version
1	Credential Theft	high	background.js (line 6948)	Passively sniffs the user's live Facebook traffic via webRequest.onSendHeaders to extract the fb_dtsg_ag CSRF token and persists it to chrome.storage.local. The stored token is later combined with the user's c_user co…	1.1.3
2	Credential Theft	high	content.js (line 2779)	Reads the user's Facebook c_user session identifier directly from document.cookie and combines it with the previously sniffed fb_dtsg_ag CSRF token to issue authenticated requests as the logged-in user. This is sessio…	1.1.3
3	Credential Theft	high	content.js (line 4127)	Ships a hard-coded Basic-auth consumer credential and a hard-coded Twitter Bearer token, then reads the user's Twitter ct0 CSRF cookie from document.cookie and forwards it to the service worker (content.js:4276) to ca…	1.1.3
4	Network Interception	high	background.js (line 6980)	The extension rewrites HTTP responses from *.facebook.com and strips the X-Frame-Options header. Removing a site's framing protection weakens the victim's security posture and enables clickjacking/embedding of Faceboo…	1.1.3
5	Network Interception	high	interceptor.js (line 317)	interceptor.js is injected as a page-world <script> into every frame of every URL (content.js:767, content_scripts matches <all_urls>, run_at document_start, all_frames true). It monkey-patches XMLHttpRequest.prototyp…	1.1.3
6	Code Injection	medium	content.js (line 767)	The content script injects interceptor.js into the page's JavaScript world via a <script src=chrome-extension://.../interceptor.js>. Combined with manifest web_accessible_resources: ["*"] matches <all_urls>, this deli…	1.1.3
7	Tracking	medium	manifest.json (line 41)	Every file in the extension bundle is exposed as a web-accessible resource to every origin. This allows any website to fingerprint the extension via chrome-extension://dkbccihpiccbcheieabdbjikohfdfaje/* probes and to …	1.1.3
8	Other	low	background.js (line 7512)	A 20-second setInterval calling chrome.runtime.getPlatformInfo is used to keep the MV3 service worker from going idle. This circumvents Chrome's intended MV3 lifecycle so the persistent webRequest listeners (including…	1.1.3

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www.w3.org	/2000/svg	http://www.w3.org/2000/svg
www.w3.org	/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns	http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
ns.adobe.com	/xap/1.0/mm/	http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
ns.adobe.com	/xap/1.0/sType/ResourceRef	http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/sType/ResourceRef#
ns.adobe.com	/xap/1.0/	http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
www.w3.org	/1999/xlink	http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink
www.w3.org	/1998/Math/MathML	http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML
github.com	/facebook/regenerator/blob/main/LICENSE	https://github.com/facebook/regenerator/blob/main/LICENSE
player.vimeo.com	/video/	https://player.vimeo.com/video/
www.instagram.com	/graphql/query/	https://www.instagram.com/graphql/query/?query_hash=55a3c4bad29e4e20c20ff4cdfd80f5b4&variables={%22shortcode%22:%22

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2.1 out of 5 · 10 most recent reviews

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dont works

Vin Mon·16 Jul 2026

ca marche absolument pas sur youtube ou anime sama

Louis Rebstock·11 Jul 2026

Не робит

Feofan Feofanov·23 Jun 2026

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Security Warning: Historically Flagged as Malware

Video Downloader for U

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