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LinkedIn Hidden Code Secretly Searches Your Browser for Installed Extensions (cybersecuritynews.com)

submitted 1 week ago by gokayburucdev@lemmy.world to c/cybersecurity@sh.itjust.works

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[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Well, that's a pretty useless approach for tech discussions, because this kind of attack is explicitly not possible on Firefox.

Also, extrapolating such a broad statement from the simple fact that it's possible to unreliably detect the presence of a single broad category of extensions is a huge reach.