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		jamesgill 14 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: LinkedIn is searching your browser extensions https://browsergate.eu/extensions/ It seems to not scan for Privacy Badger and uBlock Origin, two extensions I rely on. That's...surprising.

x0x0 14 days ago [–]

Because what they're scanning for is scrapers. So much linkedin scraping. And I'd bet that the majority of the innocuous-looking extensions are scrapers hidden as other extensions to get users to unknowingly use them.

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