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They would just start obfuscating the data (with ciphers, word replacements, encoding, minification, etc.) They'd then claim it was for your security/privacy/p
by byuu 10y ago
They would just start obfuscating the data (with ciphers, word replacements, encoding, minification, etc.)
They'd then claim it was for your security/privacy/protection. You know, like how Microsoft encrypts your Windows 10 usage data it sends them.
At least you could use the presence of such obfuscation as a sign there's probably something bad afoot. Presuming only a tiny number of extensions try to encode the data they send.
- jlgaddis 10y ago> ... you could use the presence of such obfuscation as a sign there's probably something bad afoot. So, that "if you have nothing to hide..." argument, basically?
- singold 10y agoSimilar but not the same, one thing is hiding your own information, but another very different is you taking my information and hiding it from me
- yuhong 10y agoThis extension already does in fact, with double base64 (see btoa in source).