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Re:Show HN: Browser extension that spoofs your location data... by lilsoso on Saturday June 11, 2022 @11:13PM (#31710982)
Very interesting.

Is there a risk that installing Chrome plugins makes your browser fingerprint more unique? Isn't the list of installed plugin-ins checked?

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Re:Show HN: Browser extension that spoofs your location data... by z0ccc on Saturday June 11, 2022 @11:27PM (#31711073)
Chrome extensions can be detected by fetching their web-accessible resources. These are files inside an extension that can be accessed by web pages.

Vytal has no web-accessible resources so it can not be detected.

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Re:Show HN: Browser extension that spoofs your location data... by gildas on Saturday June 11, 2022 @11:45PM (#31711208)
With Manifest V3, you an inject scripts in the "MAIN" world [1] without exposing them as web-accessible resources.

[1] https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/reference/scrip...

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