How is that scary?
The browser by definition has unlimited access to read and modify (and monitor) anything I do in it.
And I trust gorhill a million times more than any Google employee, past, present or future.
How much do you think NSO Group would pay for this kind of access?
If you ran uBlock Origin, would you like to retire early?
Jbk from the VLC project has a lot of stories about turning down 6, 7 figure payments to bundle malware in VLC. Not everyone has the strong morals and unlimited stamina to withstand that.
Manifest V3 is created to solve a real problem. I have had browser extensions go rogue on me before (Stylish), and i would like it to not happen again. At the same time, uBlock Origin is a hugely important extension for making the web usable for hundreds of millions of people. A compromise must be found that moves their safety out of a single person's hands.
The only real complaint is that Chrome did not anticipate how large these lists need to be in 2021, and the limits are too low.
Not sure if it removes the ability for the user to on-the-fly add any blocking, but I suspect it does.
Use Stylus (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/styl-us/) instead.