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acorn221yesterday at 1:41 PM2 repliesview on HN

They have! It's these developers either not knowing or not caring about it which is the issue! I did a blog post about this a while back showing how they do it, and how you can get around it, it's not very complex for the devs.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-linkedin-knows-which-chro...


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victor106yesterday at 2:14 PM

> Chrome have fortunately recently released a "extension side panel" mode, and since only DOM changes can be easily identified, using the chrome extension side panel would be virtually un-detectable however this is far less intuitive to use and requires the user to perform some action to open the sidepanel every time they want to use the extension.

As an end user I could not find an option to open the side panel

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Ajedi32yesterday at 1:49 PM

`use_dynamic_url` seems like it should be enabled by default, maybe with a phase-out period for backwards compatibility with older extensions.

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