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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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