Hi, thanks a lot for your rating. I am sorry, that the update has caused a notification prompt, which has been disturbing you. However, I can reassure you: Technically, the permissions have not changed and the extension is perfectly fine.

What happened in more detail is that the permission to access your “data on all your sites” has been there before, but only for the currently _active_ tab. Only now Firefox, surprisingly for me too, displays a prompt for that. Thus, this has been there before and still is.

More details can be found here: https://github.com/rugk/awesome-emoji-picker/issues/171#issuecomment-3423634393

Unfortunately, that permission is required by Firefox in order to load a content script, to be able to insert emojis into the page and for the experimental emoji autocorrect feature. The extension is fully open source, so one can verify that it respects user privacy and does not send data anywhere. You can do so yourself at https://github.com/rugk/awesome-emoji-picker.

This extension also adheres to a strict and short privacy policy, which you can read in detail on https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/awesome-emoji-picker/privacy/.
Furthermore, a detailed explanation of the permission this extension requests and why they are requested can be found on https://github.com/rugk/awesome-emoji-picker/blob/main/assets/texts/en/permissions.md.

Best regards,
rugk & Teal Dulcet