[byuu]

They would just start obfuscating the data (with ciphers, word replacements, encoding, minification, etc.)

They'd then claim it was for your security/privacy/protection. You know, like how Microsoft encrypts your Windows 10 usage data it sends them.

At least you could use the presence of such obfuscation as a sign there's probably something bad afoot. Presuming only a tiny number of extensions try to encode the data they send.

[yuhong]

This extension already does in fact, with double base64 (see btoa in source).

[jlgaddis]

> ... you could use the presence of such obfuscation as a sign there's probably something bad afoot.

So, that "if you have nothing to hide..." argument, basically?

[singold]

Similar but not the same, one thing is hiding your own information, but another very different is you taking my information and hiding it from me