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Apr 14, 2026 · Information Security

How LinkedIn Leverages 6,236 Browser Fingerprints to Reveal Your Career Secrets in Milliseconds

A detailed security analysis shows that LinkedIn's browser extension silently runs a heavily obfuscated JavaScript payload that probes over 6,200 Chrome extensions in a few milliseconds, building precise user profiles, political tags, and commercial intelligence, while Microsoft defends the practice as anti‑scraping.