My most useful Chrome extension was stealing my data for years

As someone who works with images for almost every part of my job, I really don’t like Google’s WebP format. It’s fine for what it does, but loading it up in an image editor can often be a headache. So, I use a browser extension to download WebP files as JPEG and PNG—or, at least, I’ve been doing so for a few years. Turns out it was the latest Chrome extension to be sold off and turned into spyware.

The extension in question is, or was, called “Save image as Type.” It did exactly what it promised...