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by un-nf 46 days ago
Yeah, the source I used is browsergate.eu. I do a lot of developing in the dev tools (browser fingerprinting protection tool on the same site) and so I was looking at the dev tools for linked in and saw the extension enumeration a few weeks ago. I didn't realize that's what was going on, but there was a repository from a few years ago that started tracking this. There's a HN link somewhere... nefariouslinkedin I think it was called.

Then, I saw the browsergate story drop on mastodon and thought "no way," lo-and-behold, there's a lawsuit in the works for it.

I found the audit to be a bit dense and hard to read, this is a response to that. I