[gingerlime]

It sounds much more privacy respecting. I guess it depends on what’s included in those statistical updates and how much trust I can give the extension. For example for not getting hacked or bought by hackers (see the great suspender as an example).

Edit: I don’t even use Chrome :) but that’s not the main point, but perhaps shows where I am personally on the privacy scale?

[mshuffett]

For the sake of discussion, what about an open source decentralized blockchain that shows that your data is always encrypted and only readable by hosted apps that are open source that you approve to have access to your data?

[gingerlime]

I’m not sure if you’re joking or not. I tend to believe that simple designs improve security, so this sounds like the polar opposite.

But I guess I’m not the main target audience. Given the succees of Grammarly and other privacy invasive apps, people are happy to give away their data for convenience. The HN crowd might be a bit different however. Winning this crowd might or might not be an indication of success.