[fiddlerwoaroof]

Chrome sandboxes fetch requests from extensions and tells the user what permissions the app is requesting, so it’s not actually that bad (barring bugs in the sandbox)

[jannes]

What do you mean with "sandboxes fetch requests"? That's not a valid countermeasure at all...

The grandparent was worried about the extension stealing his email's contents.

[iudqnolq]

Absolutely. If the extension injects JavaScript into the page to examine the email it can run a fetch in the context of that page.

I think the app store should warn that a page can send data to any website if it has permission to modify any page.

[fiddlerwoaroof]

It’s been a while, but I’m pretty sure the permissions dialog explicitly calls this out.