When I first saw the extension requiring "new" permissions like PII, the first thing I did was check the reviews if anyone had any information on why these new perms were required and if it'd be better to uninstall.

I was not expecting that person to be the developer of the extension, with a full in-depth explanation of why each new perm was needed, if the extension was trusted, and information on why the permissions were rebranded.

This is the first time I've EVER seen a developer take the time to read negative reviews, explain, and attempt to help with any issues. I've been using this extension for a while, and I could tell this project was difficult to maintain just based on how it was made.

You are perhaps the greatest developer I've seen purely for actually listening to what people had to say and addressing the constant 1 star reviews with actual notes. I created an account purely to say that this extension has been great for quite a while now, and keeping servers alive with little monetization, pushing out updates, taking time to read feedback, addressing questions, it's all extremely impressive and genuinely makes me want to support the project. Cheers mate.

it's probably just nothing, but i still dont trust saying yes to a popup that literally asks to spy on me. i don't know how to code, i can't verify what this permission is actually for, and with the current state of the internet i don't trust any of u guys to tell me if this is legit or not

i think the best course of action would just be to leave this addon for now and come back when this issue has been resolved

is now a dataminer.

dataminer + liar + cringe

Datamine your butthole. And your excuse about "extension is actually recommended by Mozilla" is bullshit - because if was recomended BEFORE this update, so label just got transfered further and means nothing. Its not warranty of addon update being checked by mozilla team before publishing.


Other similiar addons write:
Access your data for www.youtube.com
Access your data for m.youtube.com
Access your data for returnyoutubedislikeapi.com

And thats ALL! Nothing more. While this addon ask not only url's listed above but also asks next:
Required data collection, according to the developer:
• Browsing activity (what activity? All my cookies, tabs, and history? For what?)
• Personally identifying information (lol, what? what exactly information? I know about some kind of rydAPI unique ID for each user, thats not too good to create a user-fingerprint point but fine if this is only thing. But statement DOES NOT clarifies which identifying info its targeting)
• Website activity (what exactly activity?)
• Website content (no clarification which content. All It wants I guess?)

"It's opensorce - go check yourself" - If i would know how to code I would definately created some kind of local script or forked this addon, but I don't. And history actually knows how opensource can be left with unnoticed backdoor, so thrust is very expensive thing and this addon have lost it for sure.

I Really hope its just a big misunderstanding, as you already answered all those many dislikes i had to just give this one 4/5 Stars, one star less, because it looks so horrible, i really do not like Datamining and i really want to trust you Mr. Dev... soooo I’ve told Mozilla about it, in the hopes that the wording gets corrected to match what the extension is actually doing.
No one in their right mind would opt into data mining like this, even if it’s just the appearance of it being wrong.
Especially because many extensions these days are going in that direction, data is the oil of the modern technocracy, so to speak.
If the concerns are unfounded, I hope you can clarify that soon Mr. Dev. If not, well… i just hope we still can trust you.

This is definitely a issue of communication, because people are just so tired of their information being stolen that generic tags to do a feature has everyone on high alert.

The plugin being open source and the dev responding to questions and criticism is what saved it. If a popup for the update happened before its update to explain what it actually does, I feel this would have been avoided.

The dev is trying to gaslight people in the replies to low star reviews saying that nothing about the extension has change and the reason it is asking for more permissions is just because Mozilla changed how they label the permissions but that's a flat out lie.
As many others have pointed out the add-on is now gathering unique identifiable user data, there is no way to prove that he is selling user data but it is the most likely explanation.
The other way the developer keeps trying to gaslight people is by claiming "Clearly nothing changed since we are a recommended add-on" knowing full well that the Recommended badge DOES NOT get reviewed with every new update. I have reported the new practices from this dev to Mozilla and I encourage everybody else do to the same.

asking for data for no reason all of a sudden

This addon was fine until it recently started asking for unnecessary permissions for personal data collection.