Opinionated

Name: Opinionated
Rating: 3.5 (2 reviews)
Author: William Johnston

Searches links on the active tab and informs you by adding text beside links that point to an opinion article. For non-opinion articles, a media bias list from AllSides is used to identify Left, Lean Left, Center, Lean Right, and Right biased sites.

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The purpose of this addon is to inform you when a link location is an opinion article. Most popular news sites have opinion blogs, and you don't want to confuse those articles with reporting articles. The addon will add "[Opinionated]" to the text content of every identified URL that links to an opinion article.

Alternatively if an opinion article is not linked, this addon will use a curated list from https://www.allsides.com to indicate the bias of a news source:

"[<<]" = Left
"[<]" = Lean Left
"[<>]" = Center
"[<~>]" = Mixed
"[>]" = Lean Right
"[>>]" = Right

The final place where this addon will look is from Swiss Propaganda Research. This image contains the breakdown from SWPRS, and is merged into the AllSides ratings to fill in blanks.

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AllSides Media Bias Ratings by AllSides.com are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. These ratings may be used for research or noncommercial purposes with attribution. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, PO Box 1866, Mountain View, CA 94042, USA.

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Version:

1.7.0 Last updated: 2023-07-31

Version code:

5602196

Creation date:

2020-04-05

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Permissions:

<all_urls>
activeTab

Content scripts matches:

<all_urls>

Size:

1.62MB

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Firefox Add-ons Store

Data ingested on:

2026-06-18

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# 38,759 ▼ 2,413

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Developed by:

William Johnston

Firefox Add-ons Store

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/opinionated/

Website:

https://github.com/wjohnsto/opinionated

User Reviews

by 敬念*****, 2025-04-16

by 远离*****, 2025-03-12

While the addon itself runs fine and functions properly, the data-source for the political leanings is obviously far right. This undermines the entire purpose of this app and deems it unusable, untrustworthy, and either outright insidious or negligent. An example is that FoxNews is listed as CENTER, and not Far-Right or even Right-Lean or Mixed, while CNN is listed as FAR-Left when in reality is left-lean, center, or even right-lean. Would be nice to get a better source for this to be at least closer to reality.

by sc*****, 2022-10-11

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Is Opinionated Safe?

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Opinionated requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk impact analysis details

Critical Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
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Opinionated has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

Risk likelihood analysis details

High This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.
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