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- kyleee 5mo agoAnd certainly fingerprint you right?
- WJW 5mo agoI guess that's what they're hoping for. With my admittedly biased opinion of the average linkedin user, about 99% will have the default set of extensions installed and so will not be very useful. Those users might have other identifiers of course, so who knows.
- jwpapi 5mo agoI’m pretty sure it’s not 99% you would wonder how many differences there are along with user-agent resolution and ip range... I think 99% are identifiable
- flomo 5mo agoIdeally about 99% of LinkedIn users are using their professional name, occupation, and location.
- RobRivera 5mo agoOh man time to see if there is a chrome Bonzai Buddy extension
- flomo 5mo agoProbably mostly for abuse prevention. Lots of extensions like this one: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/linkedin-data-scrapper/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/linkedin-data...
- hirako2000 5mo agoThe "abuse" is that one doesn't have to copy paste for hours.
- Lerc 5mo agoCan you confirm that the title is correct and that it encrypts rather than hashes? Both are concerns, but sending interpretable data is a more serious concern. I scanned through the article and did not see an example of the header it added.
- stingraycharles 5mo agoIt says RSA public key encryption in the article, so I’m going to assume that it’s not a typo.
- phantomathkg 5mo agocan, but how? Have you verify all 6278 and what they do?
- tomhow 5mo agoThis is a good example of why post summaries are considered off-topic on HN. If it becomes the top comment (which it often does if people agree with it or are riled up by it) they'll reply to the summary rather than posting their replies as root comments to the main thread, creating a split between replies to the top comment and root replies. Also, please don't use a title for the HN submission that's different from the title of the original post. The guidelines are specific about this.