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by oefrha 2230 days ago
That’s not how permissions work in Chrome extensions. You pretty much can’t do anything with the URL matching permission alone, however broad your pattern (including <all_urls>).

Take a look at

https://developer.chrome.com/apps/declare_permissions

https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/api_index

Edit: I should mention that content script permissions declaration works differently: https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/content_scripts