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haswellyesterday at 1:51 PM2 repliesview on HN

This, to me, seems like the more salient point. A headline like “Major browsers allow websites to see your installed extensions” seems more appropriate here.

We’ve known for a long time that advertisers/“security” vendors use as many detectable characteristics as possible to constrict unique fingerprints. This seems like a major enabler of even more invasive fingerprinting and that seems like the bigger issue here.


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hsuduebc2yesterday at 4:16 PM

Well it would be more appropriate headline if it would be about broken browser behavior.

But this is about major corporation sneakily abusing this to ilegally extract specific sensitive data which they are abusing.

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acheronyesterday at 2:16 PM

This is a Chrome thing. It’s a safe bet that if you use Google products you don’t care about privacy anyway. “Google product collects info about you: news at 11.”

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