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LinkedIn scans visitors' browsers for 6,000+ extensions in 'BrowserGate' tracking

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LinkedIn has been found injecting JavaScript that stealthily scans visitors' browsers for 6,236 Chrome extensions and collects detailed hardware telemetry, according to a security analysis reported
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Tom's Hardware
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