[jasonlotito]

> Often, this kind of item needs to see all pages so that it can perform a limited task such as looking for RSS feeds that you might want to subscribe to.

This is Google's issue. They provide a limited set of permissions (you want access to data about the site, you need to give permissions to read the site).

Maybe you could answer this: how else is the plug supposed to get the title of the page you are looking at without having access to the contents of the page? The title, after all, is part of that content.

> I think it is not unreasonable to take pause when an extension asks for such permissions.

It's not. It is, however, unreasonable to unfairly and dishonestly characterize a plugin without doing any research yourself.