Grade C

Embed Privacy

Name: Embed Privacy
Rating: 4.9 (26 reviews)
Author: epiphyt

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by epiphytupdated 2026-05-12🎲The Mixed Bag

Privacy and speed for your site with a few minor consent hiccups.

Declining

81/100

Users value the privacy and speed gains despite some technical flaws in consent handling.

Loved32/40

Trustworthy14/15

Fair & Honest15/15

Maintained18/18

Momentum2/12

Active installs

~31,000

our estimate · wp.org shows 10k+

Rating

4.9★

26 ratings

Trend · vs a year ago

-42%

Declining fast

132 → 77 installs/day

What to watch out for

MINORreviews unevenly distributed over time
MINORdownloads down 42% vs a year ago

Downloads over time

real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend

2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03

organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median

Declining fast · -42% in the last year

132/day a year ago→77/day today

Reviews

what people actually say

Embed Privacy is widely praised for its easy, GDPR-compliant video embedding and responsive support, though some users report that consent handling can load all videos at once and it lacks Jetpack Facebook oEmbed support.

What people like

+Enables privacy-friendly embedding of videos and automatically detects them×2
+Helps sites comply with GDPR/DSGVO regulations×5
+Responsive and helpful support×2
+Easy to install and use, with no intrusive upselling×2
+Generates automatic thumbnails for embedded content
+Works with Facebook and Instagram embed codes
+Provides adjustable content blockers

Common complaints

−Accepting consent for one video loads all videos from all platforms, ignoring per-platform choices
−Does not support Facebook oEmbed generated by Jetpack

Review trustReviews look organic

4.88★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.90★
4%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members

Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower

2023-07-202025-01-102026-06-04

5★ reviews1–4★ reviews

All-time ratings · 26 total

5★

4★

3★

2★

1★

Latest reviews · 26 analyzed

2025-07-01★★★★★Fantastic Pineapple is DISGUSTING on Pizza
2025-02-28★★★★★AMAZING visualworker002
2024-07-28★★★★★simple and easy BUT with bugs wotography
2024-07-13★★★★★Just what I was looking for!Chris Lovie-Tyler
2024-06-16★★★★★Tolles Plugin!rehatiere007
2024-05-27★★★★★Amazing, super easy to use and effective!bauble93031-shot
2024-02-13★★★★★Perfect solution syrill
2024-02-09★★★★★Perfect Plugin holgee
2023-08-13★★★★★Perfect solution Arno Welzel
2023-06-29★★★★★Super Plugin – auch für Laien eklis

Releases

recent versions from WordPress.org SVN

2026-05-12v1.12.4
2026-04-13v1.12.3
2026-01-17v1.12.2
2026-01-15v1.12.1
2026-01-14v1.12.0
2025-11-03v1.11.4
2025-10-06v1.11.3
2025-08-24v1.11.2

For developers & the curious

the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary above

Download signals

Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.

Baseline · median of last 7 organic days

Prior 7-day baseline

138

Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days

5,728

Mean release-day peak (30d)

121

Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)

+8.7%

Week-over-week organic trend

Review signals

Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.

20%

Max month share · biggest single 30-day window

2.01

Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty

96%

5★ share in analyzed sample

Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity

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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo

4.88 → 4.88★

Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered