LinkedIn’s BrowserGate: Scanning Visitors for 6,236 Chrome Extensions and Device Data
A recent security analysis has raised alarms about how LinkedIn inspects the browsers of people who visit its site. Researchers at Fairlinked e.V. published what they call the "BrowserGate" report, and independent testing by BleepingComputer corroborated many of the findings: LinkedIn appears to inject client-side JavaScript that probes visitors’ browsers for thousands of Chrome extensions and collects a range of device telemetry. The behavior has rekindled discussions about browser fingerprinting,…