I would recommend to learn to read. At least before posting so categorically wrong.

The only data the extension can access is YouTube and its own returnyoutubedislike site.

Nothing in the extension changed - it’s open-source, so you can verify that yourself. What changed is how Mozilla labels privacy-related permissions.

"browsing activity" is the video url/id. And detecting that you navigated to the next video.
If you read carefully you'll see that this only applies to YouTube and RYD API - not all websites.

The extension only uses an anonymous, randomly generated ID, and the id of the video that you liked/disliked.

• YouTube access - needed to read the current video ID and show its dislike count.
• RYD API access - needed for API requests and diagnostics.
• Online/activity data - viewing, liking, or disliking videos. - only on YouTube
• Personally identifiable information - RYD’s random private user ID used to count votes, not your real identity.
• Website content - mainly the video ID.

The new labels sound scary, but they describe the same data the extension has always used.