To be fair, uBlock Origin has always been a special case. It's so good and so important and so trusted that it should have access to browser internals that norm

To be fair, uBlock Origin has always been a special case. It's so good and so important and so trusted that it should have access to browser internals that normal extensions can't access. Honestly, uBlock Origin shouldn't be an extension to begin with, it should be a literally built in feature of all browsers. Only reason it's not is we can't trust ad companies to maintain an ad blocker.