YouTube "Sort by: Oldest" Extension is Dangerous

[MoerWarrior]

Hello y'all. When YouTube decided that it was over for the "sort by: oldest" feature on YouTube channels, many of us chose to download the "Sort by: Oldest" Chrome extension to return this functionality.

Recently, the extension had been earmarked for end of life due to YouTube returning this functionality (seen here in the Chrome Extension page for the extension).

 

Unfortunately, today many using the extension received a message that the extension now required permission to read website data on any website you visited. While the extension publisher notes that all data collected is for "internal clickstream use, not personal data," it is impossible to trust any closed-source platform with this data and I strongly urge anyone with this extension to delete it immediately and to not grant these permissions.

 

If there are more updates to why this extension is overreaching its permissions, please reply to this post.

[Levent]

Extension probably always did that but it was just not MV3 compatible. You can decompile the extension if you want confirm your theories.

 

You can read more about MV3 in the link below.
https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/mv3/intro/