But if you saw that would you assume it's an attempt to hide a message? How often do you open up webpages in your editor and inspect the line endings? All steg

But if you saw that would you assume it's an attempt to hide a message? How often do you open up webpages in your editor and inspect the line endings? All steganographic methods can be detected if you start actively looking for them. The point is it's very hard to know what to look for, especially if you come up with your own coding which you do not share publicly (off the top of my head: using commas and full-stops to encode a bitstream in tweets.)