[Rastafarian]

IMHO they would never do that and you're just being naive ;)

Encryption in the browser would mean no targeted ads, less profit for shareholders, problems with the government.

Again IMHO the reality of today is governments and big business are controlled by a very few people, working against the interests of the masses - i.e. a huge conspiracy.

[dhimes]

I think they should offer this for their paid service and drop the data mining and targeted ads for it- but not offer it for their free service. I should be allowed to pay for true (at least to the limit the government will allow- that's a separate discussion) privacy.

[mseebach]

I agree, this would be pretty good, and I think I'd pay for it. They are in a unique position to build a browser API for dealing with encrypted data.