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dylan604today at 1:50 PM2 repliesview on HN

What is a Chrome-based browser? Isn't Chrome Google's Chromium based browser? How many are based on Chrome?


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Panda4today at 2:13 PM

> This means every user visiting LinkedIn with Chrome, Edge, Brave, Opera, Arc, or any other Chromium-based browser is subject to the scan.

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andersonpicotoday at 2:07 PM

From "The Attack: How it works", its just checking the user agent string:

function a() { return "undefined" != typeof window && window && "node" !== window.appEnvironment; }

function s() { return window?.navigator?.userAgent?.indexOf("Chrome") > -1; }

if (!a() || !s()) return;