I think I'll start to use exclusively CLI tools for discovering and downloading of YT content. The entire experience which starts from typing "youtube.com" in the address bar and pressing enter is obnoxiously unbearable.

If you look for something in a complex system, and you look hard enough, you're probably going to find it. The example of epilepsy might just be seeing certain behavior through the lens of the theory. Unfortunately, the article fails to give us any hard definition of criticality.

For note taking I'd only ever use extensions with no permissions needed. "Tagged notes" is an example of a good, simple notes extensions for Firefox.

If I need sync, I'd prefer not to rely on the extension for that. Why would I pay for my own cloud service AND a separate payment for random apps that use their own sync? Most people have their own online storage, and should always be the number 1 way to backup things like personal notes.

I used this for a while in 1999...

http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~orit/utok.html

I imagine nowadays all the notes would just be like any online comments section: fighting and name-calling about anything and everything

At least for the first few years, Apple kept changing the Safari extension tech enough that it wasn't worth keeping up with it. Has it finally stabilized to the point where you can build anything non-trivial and have it work for a few years?

so what if it reads your passwords if it has no network permission to exfiltrate?

If you update the extension does it automatically update for the users or does the user have to manually install the update?

Regardless I love the idea of this.