[kyleperik]

End to end encryption seems to be less understood by many people, even some professionals I know. HTTPS is completely secure, check this out, it's a fun read: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public-key_cryptography

The real question is perhaps, are we okay with Google having their eyes on everything?

[UncleMeat]

Is that even the real question? If you are using chrome to visit your bank you are already assuming that Google isn't behaving badly. Your threat model changes very little when sending page contents to be translated.

[kyleperik]

You can track what comes and goes on your network, if chrome sends information about random pages back snoop on, then I think that quite certainly would have been whistleblown by now.

Sending a webpage ourselves directly to google is a completely different story. We have no idea what goes on with your data behind their servers. But we can monitor what goes on in our own machines.

Also, funny how we've come to the point that we're using the term threat model to describe our relationship with the beloved Google.