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One example of special treatment is Chrome giving *.google.com sites access to system metrics for the CPU, GPU, and RAM usage[0][1] through a default extension that isn't exposed to users.

[0]: https://xcancel.com/lcasdev/status/1810696257137959018

[1]: https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:chr...



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