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

[toomuchtodo]

Can browsers defend against this with technical countermeasures?

[hurfdurf → toomuchtodo]

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 → hurfdurf]

Thank you!