The problems with your argument are these: a) the extension had been operating for years, unmolested by the Googlebot, with the expanded permission set b) tig

The problems with your argument are these: a) the extension had been operating for years, unmolested by the Googlebot, with the expanded permission set b) tightening up the permissions did _not_ solve the problem, indicating clearly that whatever the Googlebot was selecting for, it wasn't an incorrect use of permissions.