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Then it'd probably need a privacy policy and/or disclaimer in the addon description, which in turn would cause people to find out and downrate it to obscurity.


Are you saying it wouldn't get accepted during the review unless it had that in the description?

That seems like a dangerous rule to live by if an extension is allowed to collect all of that information and it's auto-opt-in based on it existing somewhere buried in a privacy policy or long description.

We really only ever notice the permission setting because the browser puts that in front of us before agreeing to install it and it's usually a 1 liner like "hey, this extension can access everything about your browsing history".




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