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LinkedIn checks for 2953 browser extensions
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#242Looks like Firefox is immune. This works by looking for web accessible resources that are provided by the extensions. For Chrome, these are are available in a webpage via the URL chrome-extension://[PACKAGE ID]/[PATH] https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/reference/manif... On Firefox, web accessible resources are available at "moz-extension:// /myfile.png" is not your extension's ID. This ID is randomly gener…
It's ok, they can fingerprint you for using Firefox.
Yeah, but they don't know which specific one of Firefox's last dozen users I am.
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#244why would they want this type of check? Like what could it possibly be doing for the end customer or features available?
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#245Earlier quoted context omitted.
The operating system. For example see the Windows 11 screenshot debacle/scandal.
Are you talking about Recall, which got such huge negative press they delayed it a year and added a clear opt-in? And never sent anything off the device itself? If anyone has evidence of constant tracking and reporting then please share it.
Well, I won't touch Windows 11 with a ten feet pole and I don't know if what I am referring to is called "Recall". Not that much into the MS terminology. I also read about Windows 11 having all kinds of shenanigans to suddenly upload data into onedrive. Wouldn't be surprised, if that also included screenshots, or could "accidentally" lead to that happening. Screenshotting every few seconds is unacceptable even if it stays on the device per se. Once data exists, it has potential to leak, and we have not even started considering malware infection yet. Huge risk to people's privacy and safety online.
We can stop pretending all it alright at some point, can't we? We don't need more enshittification. Windows 11 is already a disaster, that no one wants. It already starts with its idiotic HW requirements, trying to make perfectly fine HW obsolete. $$$
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#246Earlier quoted context omitted.
And they said that using a browser with sub-5% market share would cause us to miss out on the latest and greatest in web technology!
The real friction in browser hopping isn't features — it's keeping your workflow portable. Bookmarks especially. Each browser has its own sync silo (Chrome → Google, Firefox → Mozilla, Safari → iCloud). For multi-browser setups (Firefox for fingerprint resistance, Chrome for the sites that only work there), cross-browser bookmark sync is weirdly undersolved. Xbrowsersync, marksyncr, and a few others exist but most pe…
Checkout marksyncr.com for bookmarks
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#247Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not interested. You also shouldn't have done that. You broke the thread—exactly what HN's no-deleting-comments-that-have-replies check was created to prevent. Consider this: just stop being reckless.
I wrote an erroneous comment in haste, which I regret. However, this kind of thing happens countless times every day on HN. It's not unusual. Except perhaps the regret part: unlike me, many of those other commenters admit no error and express no regret. If you truly cared about HN etiquette as much as you claim, you wouldn't post haughty hyperbole such as "Consider this: just stop being reckless" and "The person you'…
Nice try.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwUswWA7cRc>
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#248LinkedIn is the worst walled garden of all of them.
Close second: conference apps.
They infuriate me. Data harvesting machines in all ways. Incredibly user hostile.
Example: making me scroll endlessly through attendee lists. Lack of good filters. Etc. Can’t download attendee lists.
I finally lost my patience and wrote a Selenium script to page through an app and extract everything. Worked well after some initial trial and error.
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#249Chrome is the new IE6. Google set themselves up to be the next Microsoft and is "ad friendly" in all the creepy ways because that's what Google IS an ad company. All they've contributed to security is diminishing the capability of adblockers and letting malware to do bad things to you as consumers.
Brave feels like using Chrome. The transition was seemless even as a developer who uses the devtools. Obviously that's because it's almost the same code, but Brave is much more privacy friendly right?
Brave was found to be mostly different adware years ago I thought. It's a degoogle'd chrome essentially, but replaced with their adware instead of google's.
If you want a clean chrome, use ungoogled-chromium. Like IE6, some stuff just doesn't work in librewolf (less scummy firefox), so I use ungoogled-chromium when so, and I just don't do anything googleish on it that it latches onto google again.
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#250Earlier quoted context omitted.
Programmers don't appreciate the fact that you can just violate terms of service. You can just do it. It's okay. The police won't come after you. Usually.
Indeed. I read a lot of comments like these one you are responding on HN. It seems like there is a type of person who thinks that writing down what their rules are has some magical power. “This isn’t what it was intended for”. Who cares? A long long time ago in a galaxy far far away I would encounter warnings on pirating websites saying “If you are an FBI agent you are not allowed to continue on this site”. Imagine t…
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