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Re:LinkedIn will scan the browser to identify extensions by polotics on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @12:44PM (#24849537)
How do you know the purpose is to prevent scraping? It could be some general marketing drive or general snoop for whatever other invented privacy invasive reason.
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Re:LinkedIn will scan the browser to identify extensions by postalrat on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @12:46PM (#24849568)
Because linkedin has been involved in a few lawsuits to try to stop people from user's data from their site. And the browser extensions they scan for are scraping extensions.
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