LinkedIn beats "BrowserGate" lawsuits over scanning users' Chrome extensions

LinkedIn beats "BrowserGate" lawsuits over scanning users' Chrome extensions(arstechnica.com)

6 points by Bender 21 days ago | 4 comments

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.

toomuchtodo 21 days ago |

Can browsers defend against this with technical countermeasures?

hurfdurf 20 days 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 20 days ago | | |

Thank you!