Google can keep talking about user safety all they want but their talk is hollow because:
(A) Chrome Web Store is full of malicious extensions. Google doesn't appear interested in consistently enforcing their own policies.
(B) Requiring DNR does nothing about all the other avenues for stealing user data. The fundamental problem is that a totally safe set of extension APIs is a totally limited set of extension APIs. No real innovation or differentiation is possible.
(A) Chrome Web Store is full of malicious extensions. Google doesn't appear interested in consistently enforcing their own policies.
(B) Requiring DNR does nothing about all the other avenues for stealing user data. The fundamental problem is that a totally safe set of extension APIs is a totally limited set of extension APIs. No real innovation or differentiation is possible.