Right - or even trickier... Imagine Google manages to block extensions from inserting <img> tags that reference other domains as a way of exfiltrating data...

Right - or even trickier... Imagine Google manages to block extensions from inserting <img> tags that reference other domains as a way of exfiltrating data... There are so many other ways to do it: Say you have an extension that ONLY wants access to mail.google.com. It might feel safer because it can't load in any third party scripts. But it can just as easily SEND data from your account as an email which it promptly deletes. Same goes for LinkedIn, Facebook, HN, any interactive website can be used to exfiltrate data.