Chrome extensions can be detected by fetching their web accessible resources. These are files inside an extension that can be accessed by web pages. The detected extensions can be used to track you through browser fingerprinting.
This website scans over 1000 extensions and shows you the percentage of users that share the same extensions.
https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/ from EFF does something similar using analysis of all the data shared by your browser. It also gives you a score of how unique your browser signature is as compared to other users
Interesting. Happy that I make a conscious effort to keep things as stock as is reasonable. UBlock, Bitwarden, Dark Reader; I assume I’m sitting comfortably in the 99%.
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This website scans over 1000 extensions and shows you the percentage of users that share the same extensions.