Thanks for explaining what worried you about the permission labels.

RYD hasn’t changed how it handles your data. What changed is how Mozilla labels these permissions - not what the extension does with your data.

The extension is actually recommended by Mozilla, so they do not consider it harmful or dangerous.

The only data the extension uses is what it needs to show dislikes and count votes.

Its site permissions cover YouTube and its own API at returnyoutubedislikeapi.com. RYD doesn’t read other websites, and these site permissions cannot be used to access them.

Here’s what those permissions mean:

Personally identifiable information - RYD’s randomly generated, anonymous user ID, used to count votes. This isn’t your Google or YouTube account.

Browsing activity - opening the next YouTube video, so the extension can send its video ID and fetch the new dislike count.

Website content - things like the visible like count, which helps calculate dislike estimates.

Website activity - clicking Like or Dislike.

Again, this is about YouTube activity. The extension isn’t watching everything you do across the internet - it simply can’t do that with these site permissions.

The new labels sound scary, but they don’t give the extension access to more websites.

RYD is open source, so you can see how it works: https://github.com/Anarios/return-youtube-dislike

I didn't know how this would look to end users. This is pretty new in Firefox.

"Wondering if there's a way to stop it requesting new permissions, for good."
This is the Firefox's behavior - not extensions, sorry, I'm working on what can be done to improve your experience.

"ridiculous monetization" is 1 changelog message on browser restart in 5 years. You can close and never see again. I understand that it is annoying - and I sincerely wish this wasn't needed. But the price of running the extension exceeded the donations that it was receiving - so I decided to add a new optional feature - that some people might find useful - and these people will cover the costs for the rest of us. Hopefully.

Regarding CCs - I received 2 more similar reports, but so far I couldn't reproduce or fix it. Working on it.

Hi, Mozilla's policy is "no data collected in private windows." And counting your vote counts as "data collection."

So I need to implement a feature in the extension to detect that it is in a private window -and it should stop sending votes. It is not difficult - but I was short on time and wanted to get FF fixes to people faster. So it was easier to just disable it in private windows altogether - not to get punished for non-compliance.

I will work on this soon.

I only hope that the extension is allowed to make a request with a video ID (to get dislike counts). Because technically, this could be deemed data collection too - not sure yet.

And yeah - the policies are new - people are still learning how they work, and Mozilla is still figuring it out themselves.

Maybe some wording will be improved.

There should be a difference between this extension sending a randomly generated userId to count votes - and some other extension that steals your name, address, email, and phone number. But right now they both are "collecting personal data".

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YouTube changed its UI and broke the extension on Firefox. The fixed Firefox update was submitted at the same time as the Chrome update; Chrome review completed faster, while Firefox review is taking longer. It will be available as soon as Mozilla approves it.

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