alt Hacker NewsThis is how I interpreted the original question and indeed it makes no sense, JavaScript from a website should not be allowed to interact with extensions like this.
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encom • today at 12:26 AM
>JavaScript from a website should not be allowed
Agreed 100%.
It's actually the extension injecting itself into the webpage, often to interact with it. (I imagine much of this is just looking for global ExtensionName objects.)