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oelmgren 5 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: LinkedIn is searching your browser extensions

Is there evidence that they use that information for anything other than browser fingerprinting or fraud detection?

That seems like the most obvious use case? Or maybe I missed something in the write up.

kibwen 5 months ago [–]

We can hypothesize that there may exist some for-profit companies that deserve the benefit of the doubt. Microsoft is not one of them.

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