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[–] tabular@lemmy.world 52 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

This add-on needs to:

  • Store unlimited amount of client-side data
  • Access your data for sites in the googlevideo.com domain
  • Access your data for sites in the youtube.com domain
  • Access your data for sponsor.ajay.app
  • Access your data for dearrow-thumb.ajay.app
  • Access your data for www.youtube-nocookie.com

This add-on may also ask to: **Access your data for all websites

Is there a better option than for it to need unlimited amount of client-side data? Also, why "Access your data for all websites"?-

[–] ajay@lemm.ee 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Creator of theq extension here, that is an optional permissions (may ask). It is never asks to access all sites, it only optionally let's you add support for additional sites such as different Invidious instances.

Support for invidious is not actually done yet, so right now, it never asks for permission for any new sites anyway

The client side data is used to store your submissions to always show your preferred title, even if there is another submission on the server. You can disable this option in the settings

[–] tabular@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Thanks for your informative reply.

[–] electrogamerman@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Bro, I seriously would marry you and make you food every day

[–] Blaze@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Thank you for your work !

[–] LoafyLemon@kbin.social 28 points 1 year ago

Access your data for all websites

It's required to access iframes.

[–] whereisk@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Without having investigated the plug in itself, going by just what you posted: That's not likely to be a nefarious request, the plug-in needs to store data on your computer. Dealing with large number of titles it makes sense that it would cache things on your computer to minimise overtaxing their servers, to serve you more or less the same data over and over.

[–] arokan@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Maybe it's for embedded videos? idk