Post #2240199

2026-04-03 22:48 UTC

I just read up on &quot;BrowserGate&quot;, where LinkedIn is secretly (and illegally) searching users&#39; computers for installed Chrome extensions. So of course I had to create a simple example web page to demonstrate what they&#39;re doing. It uses only client-side javascript and doesn&#39;t send your data anywhere: https://jasoncoon.github.io/chrome-ext-list More info: https://browsergate.eu

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@jasoncoon@leds.social 2026-04-04 14:55

I've tested this in Brave, and I think this works in all Chromium browsers (Chrome, Edge, Opera, Brave, Vivaldi, etc) as if you needed another reason to switch to one of the few non Chromium browsers: Waterfox, Firefox, Safari, etc. Firefox explicitly "prevents websites from fingerprinting a browser by examining the extensions it has installed": https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/manifest.json/web_accessible_resources#using_web_accessible_resources

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@sldrant@mastodon.social 2026-04-05 08:41

@jasoncoon@leds.social @drajt@fosstodon.org I'm so glad I use Firefox (especially Firefox focus on my phone as primary browser, it seemed to do reasonably well in the browser fingerprint study I was part of. Hope they publish soon)

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