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Re: LinkedIn is searching your browser extensions

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Post by ceejayoz »

z3ratul163071 wrote: post #13

why would the browser ever expose extensions api to a web page. does firefox does this as well?

The "The Attack: How it works" section explains how it works. It's not an API.

I am a little surprised something like CORS doesn't apply to it, though.

Re: LinkedIn is searching your browser extensions

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Post by acorn221 »

Ajedi32 wrote: post #22
foxes wrote: post #3

It seems it scans your extensions not your system - reading the details. The intro made it a bit unclear.

Still pretty annoying browsers haven't patched that yet.

They have! It's these developers either not knowing or not caring about it which is the issue! I did a blog post about this a while back showing how they do it, and how you can get around it, it's not very complex for the devs.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-linkedin-knows-which-chro...

Re: LinkedIn is searching your browser extensions

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Post by jameskilton »

anon22981 wrote: post #25
mikkupikku wrote: post #21

LinkedIn has been overtly evil for decades, and their power users are the most insufferable sort of middle management yuppy scum. I know job searching can be hard, but I don't go near LinkedIn with a ten foot pole.

I really like going to linkedin daily to play minisudoku and a couple of other puzzles, then never engage the feed or other features

Why would you go to LinkedIn to play puzzle games? There's thousands of other places to do so.

Re: LinkedIn is searching your browser extensions

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Post by ericyd »

I don't like any of this, but I'm not totally clear how this is substantially different from other fingerprinting technologies which I assume are used by every large tech company. Could anyone elaborate? The post isn't very clear why this is different from other data surveillance.
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