Interesting, so would Safari prevent this? I tried moving to Safari and honestly loved everything except I use my google accounts now for authenticating with to many services and that was a pain compared to chrome.
I would imagine using any non-Chromium browser would cause it to fail to find any Chrome extensions, yes.
LinkedIn is scanning browser extensions
11–20 of 226 posts
Re: LinkedIn is scanning browser extensions
#12Interesting, so would Safari prevent this? I tried moving to Safari and honestly loved everything except I use my google accounts now for authenticating with to many services and that was a pain compared to chrome.
Re: LinkedIn is scanning browser extensions
#13as practitioners, where do we hold the line between telemetry and surveillance?
Re: LinkedIn is scanning browser extensions
#14Interesting, so would Safari prevent this? I tried moving to Safari and honestly loved everything except I use my google accounts now for authenticating with to many services and that was a pain compared to chrome.
Well if you’re a logged in to Google don’t you just SSO everywhere?
Re: LinkedIn is scanning browser extensions
#15Re: LinkedIn is scanning browser extensions
#16friends, WHEN you are asked to implement something like this at your job, which will you choose: object (& hold ground, loose job) OR comply (& keep job) as practitioners, where do we hold the line between telemetry and surveillance?
Re: LinkedIn is scanning browser extensions
#17Re: LinkedIn is scanning browser extensions
#18To be clear, LinkedIn shouldn't be scanning your browser extensions, but still. The ultimate problem is that browser extensions are a powerful malware vector and there's a huge market of people buying little utilities off of solo developers to enshittify them.
Re: LinkedIn is scanning browser extensions
#19[dupe] Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47613981