# Web Annotation Discovery

> Demonstrates the Web Annotation Discovery mechanism: subscribe to people’s annotation collections/‘feeds’, to see their notes on the web; and create&publish annotations yourself.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/web-annotation-discovery](https://chrome-stats.com/d/web-annotation-discovery)

## Overview

- **ID:** `web-annotation-discovery`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Gerben
- **Category:** feeds-news-blogging,social-communication
- **Version:** 0.1.0
- **Last updated:** 2022-10-03
- **First published:** 2022-10-03
- **Size:** 545 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-08
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/web-annotation-discovery/)
- **Website:** [https://code.treora.com/gerben/web-annotation-discovery-webextension](https://code.treora.com/gerben/web-annotation-discovery-webextension)

## Description

Web Annotation Discovery is a Firefox add-on that enables users to discover, subscribe to, and create web annotations. It allows users to view collected annotations on different web pages and share their own notes with others.

## Rankings

- #134,138 — Overall

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `alarms`
- `<all_urls>`
- `contextMenus`
- `notifications`
- `webNavigation`
- `webRequest`

### Content script matches

- `<all_urls>`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** High risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Moderate risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/web-annotation-discovery)