LinkedIn beats "BrowserGate" lawsuits over scanning users' Chrome extensions (arstechnica.com) 1 points by Bender 2d ago ↗ HN
[–] toomuchtodo 2d ago ↗ Can browsers defend against this with technical countermeasures? [–] hurfdurf 2d ago ↗ Considering this is only an issue on Chrom*-browsers because they are the only ones offering the API used by LinkedIn for that scan...EDIT: As explained in the original submission when this was detected, Firefox is randomizing extension IDs per site, Chrome does not.https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47613981 [–] toomuchtodo 1d ago ↗ Thank you!
[–] hurfdurf 2d ago ↗ Considering this is only an issue on Chrom*-browsers because they are the only ones offering the API used by LinkedIn for that scan...EDIT: As explained in the original submission when this was detected, Firefox is randomizing extension IDs per site, Chrome does not.https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47613981 [–] toomuchtodo 1d ago ↗ Thank you!
[–] downrightmike 2d ago ↗ Its similar to the android API google turned off that let an app check what other apps were installed, that was used to fingerprint and that got removed. Same deal here.
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[ 0.19 ms ] story [ 14.6 ms ] threadEDIT: As explained in the original submission when this was detected, Firefox is randomizing extension IDs per site, Chrome does not.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47613981