Locked article.
Saved you the trouble ;-) The title is clickbait
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ktqdJh...
https://github.com/hover-inc/hover-paywalls-browser-extensio...
According to the repo:
> The only permissions/settings the extension utilizes are for webRequest and cookie functionality, and nothing more.
… so what's there to distrust?