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Show HN: How LinkedIn detects browser extensions
- saganus 9y agoHow is this information useful for LinkedIn? Every user fingerprint is worth something I guess, but up the point of trying to detect extensions? Not sure what kind of value could that give them. Anyone has any idea? perhaps try to determine if users with similar extensions are correlated by similar jobs as well?
- mappo 9y agoThey are known to ban users that are using extensions they deem "violate" their terms of service. I imagine they primarily use this information to ban accounts and/or fingerprint devices.