Required data collection: Website content (Mandated by Mozilla - `data_collection_permissions`)
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100
- Issue type
- Documentation
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Activity status
- Stale
- Tech stack
- javascript
- Domain
- documentation
Research direction
Review manifest.json, the extension privacy page, the Firefox release notes, and commit 908b25728e359f5e699d2b3ad116fc9b400dcaf4. Compare how website-content collection is described across those locations, then make the explanation consistent and easy to find. Done means users can understand the permission and its relationship to the Privacy Policy without searching commit history.
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Description
Today Firefox showed a notice that the new version of the SteamDB extension is requiring a new permission:
Required data collection, according to the developer:
- Website content
I looked at several places to understand what that means for this extension:
- https://steamdb.info/extension/
- https://steamdb.info/extension/privacy/
- https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/steam-database/
- "Release notes" mini-tab inside the SteamDB extension management page, inside
about:addonsin Firefox. - https://github.com/SteamDatabase/BrowserExtension/issues?q=is%3Aissue
- https://github.com/SteamDatabase/BrowserExtension/tree/master/assets
- https://github.com/SteamDatabase/BrowserExtension/commits/master/
- https://github.com/SteamDatabase/BrowserExtension/commits/master/manifest.json
Finally, I found a GitHub comment inside a commit from one month ago. That was awfully difficult to find.
I think this should be better explained in some text somewhere. Even more so because this extension explicitly says it does collect website data in the manifest, which contradicts the Privacy Policy.
In other words, this issue here isn't about code bugs, but a request to please have beter communication regarding this subject. Thank you!
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