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by meitham 2716 days ago
Is this issue unique to Chrome? Does it happen with Firefox?
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I do have the same localStorage item in my Firefox. The shown way of decoding the content works too.
The technique of attemping to load web accessible resources does not work in Firefox. For starters, Firefox uses moz-extension: instead of chrome-extension:, that's obviously trivial to adapt to, but Chrome then uses the extension's global identifier in those URLs, while Firefox uses a locally generated identifier, specifically to avoid this sort of fingerprinting.