YouTube is upgrading safety standards in an effort to “protect” users. The Google-owned video-sharing site has more than 2.7 billion users around the globe who share and view content alike and bosses are hopeful that by “enhancing” various extension features, they will increase security for their userbase. In a blog post, YouTube said: “In order to better protect our users and their data, we’re upgrading our safety standards for browser extensions on YouTube. By enhancing our enforcement on these extensions, this will help safeguard viewers and creators from cyber attacks such as hijacking or …