These extensions work first by looking at the contents of the page you’re on to detect a paywall, and then make modifications to the page that remove the paywall. There’s no way for the browser-creators to guarantee that the extension isn’t also silently adding a hidden element that captures everything that you type into that website, in addition to the paywal removal, so they’re basically trying to warn you such a thing could happen.

And that is a genuine risk from every extension in the addons store, but I would say that risk is potentially even higher with a piracy extension installed from a github relese. (Not this one in particular per se, which I have no opinion about, just in general.) If it makes you uncomfortable, a reasonable compromise could be to create a new browser profile for use only with this extension, or maybe even use a different browser entirely than your daily driver.

In the browser I use this: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/twitch_5/

Been like a decade since I touched usenet but I do recall that requests were pretty common. Especially since the content expires. With a 5 year old torrent there’s a decent chance you’ll find a couple of seeders even on a public tracker and get it eventually, but with usenet that stuff does eventually rot away and you’ll have to request a reup.

I know it’s possible to rip nebula videos with yt-dlp but I don’t know of any sites hosting them

I’ve definitely used VLC to play DVD isos on PC, so there’s a pretty good chance it works on the android version too

Using a commercial VPN does not “hide” your data, it makes it available to a different party. Sometimes this is still useful, like when your ISP has a monoply and is overtly hostile to what you’re doing with your internet connection, or you just want a simple bypass for region blocking. But for a lot of people it’s lateral move or maybe even a downgrade considering the added latency and that many VPN services are also quite shady.