Thank you very much for your honest advice. I currently publish a macOS utility app that checks browser bookmarks for broken links and allows users to remove those invalid URLs. Nowadays, major browsers support multiple user profiles, and each profile has its own separate bookmark data. What I would like to implement in the next version is the ability to detect available browser profiles, display them to the user, let the user choose which profile’s bookmarks should be checked, then scan those bookmarks for broken links and optionally delete the invalid ones. So this is the actual purpose of my app. The files I would like to access are only the profile metadata (profile name information) and the bookmark data files themselves. Given this use case, do you still think this would be considered too risky or difficult to get approved?

Thank you for your quick reply and for your additional advice. I’ve decided not to pursue Full Disk Access and will instead move forward with an approach where users explicitly select the folders or profiles they want to work with. If I run into any difficulties as I continue development, I would greatly appreciate any further advice you may be willing to share.