Sounds weird, I know.

Hundreds of popular add‑ons used encrypted, URL‑sized payloads to send search queries, referrers, and timestamps to outside servers, in some cases tied to data brokers and unknown operators.

In total, the analysts examined the 32.000 most popular Chrome extensions out of the 240.000 available in the Chrome Webstore. They identified 287, some of them very popular, candidates that ...