[SulfurHexaFluri]

Malicious browser extensions are a very serious problem though. The user has almost no way to know if their data is being stolen.

[im3w1l]

But they do. It's called installing reputable extensions and software. Anything non-reputable is stealing all your data with decent probability.

[canofbars]

What is reputable? So many once reputable extensions get sold to malware makers for huge sums of money so you not only have to find someone who will not add malware, but someone who will reject $1M purely on ethics.

[OpticalWindows]

It's malicious actors all of the way down /s