Title. How many extensions would be the average to not be profiled? Obviously not having any or having 23 will make you pretty easy to fingerprint, so how many is the average or safest?

  • crtbob@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Having more extensions makes your browser fingerprint more unique, making it easier to tell you apart from other users.

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      1 year ago

      i’m comprehending that much, but i don’t understand how extensions “announce” themselves to the websites (except for content blockers). does my browser send a number corresponding to the amount of extensions i have installed? or are they listed out individually by hash or name?

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        1 year ago

        Not necessarily announce their existence. There’s some way for websites to communicate with extension like explained here. IMO, a sufficiently motivated actor can use this to add additional data point for fingerprinting.

        Although most of the methods are only applicable if you’re using Chrome or Chromium based browsers and Firefox has disabled the methods commonly used to extract information from the browser.