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Re:LinkedIn Is Illegally Searching Your Computer by chii on Thursday April 02, 2026 @10:18AM (#47614866)
it doesn't have to be files. it could be in memory on the browser. Extensions don't imply files for anyone but the most technical of conversations. Certainly not to the laymen.

Having sensationalist titles should be called out at every opportunity.

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Re:LinkedIn Is Illegally Searching Your Computer by blenderob on Thursday April 02, 2026 @10:59AM (#47615386)
> it doesn't have to be files. it could be in memory on the browser.

How'd that work? If it's in memory, the extensions would vanish everytime I shutdown Chrome? I'll have to reinstall all my extensions again everytime I restart Chrome?

Have you seen any browser that keeps extension in memory? Where they ask the user to reinstall their extensions everytime they start the browser?

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Re:LinkedIn Is Illegally Searching Your Computer by chii on Friday April 03, 2026 @12:07AM (#47623087)
I'm just using it as a possible example. There's also tampermonkey which installs not via files but via urls from another site.

The point is to call out the sensationalism in the title.

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