| ▲ | mongrelion 4 hours ago | |||||||
Curious question: why would they check for installed extensions on one's browser? | ||||||||
| ▲ | CobrastanJorji 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||
Fingerprinting. There are a few reasons you'd do it: 1. Bot prevention. If the bots don't know that you're doing this, you might have a reliable bot detector for a while. The bots will quite possibly have no extensions at all, or even better specific exact combination they always use. Noticing bots means you can block them from scraping your site or spamming your users. If you wanna be very fancy, you could provide fake data or quietly ignore the stuff they create on the site. 2. Spamming/misuse evasion. Imagine an extension called "Send Messages to everybody with a given job role at this company." LinkedIn would prefer not to allow that, probably because they'd want to sell that feature. 3. User tracking. | ||||||||
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| ▲ | jppope 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||
most automations for sales and marketing use browser extensions... linkedIn wants you using their tools not 3rd party | ||||||||
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| ▲ | staticshock 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||
For a social network, more information about their users = better ad targeting. It likely gets plumbed into models to inform user profiles. | ||||||||
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| ▲ | HPsquared 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||
An attempt at fingerprinting, I suppose? | ||||||||
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