Return YouTube Dislike by Dmitry Selivanov

4.5 Stars out of 5

Review by sophienix neuroi

the new perms are fucking stupid all my other extensions do not ask this it is not need. saying that mozilla forcing you guys to do this is bs. i will not be updating also not only that it does not ask for data and info in chrome / opera. just found out how to extract the file i now have a backup.

Developer response

posted 10 days ago

" saying that mozilla forcing you guys to do this is bs" - that is exactly what is happening. Every extension will go through this with the next updates.

Here's the same problem discussed by Sponsorblock's author:
https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/the-new-data-transmission-permissions-seem-to-be-misleading-to-users/149410

As I've replied to many - the extenion didn't change - Mozillas processes changed.

"Personal data" mentioned - is the random user id used to count likes and dislikes
"Browsing activity" = detecting that you navigated to the next video to show you the dislikes for the next video
"Website activity" - clicking likes and dislikes.

This is how the extension worked from the day one - but now Mozilla requires explicit user consent for this. And they do it on update release - which makes users think that something in the extension changed.