[jen729w]

I can’t take an article seriously that starts:

> Every time any of LinkedIn’s one billion users visits linkedin.com, hidden code searches their computer for installed software

and then proceeds not to explain how it’s doing that to me, a Safari user.

Because, spoiler: it isn’t. Or, it might try to search, and fail, and nothing will be collected.

[notpushkin]

Yeah, that won’t work for Firefox users as well (extension IDs are randomized on install).

But people do use Chrome, and this trick works there.