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BrowserGate: LinkedIn's browser-extension scanning system
AI-collected research leads through 2 October 2026, including bounded month-by-month reviews of selected social and community sources from March through September. Unranked, incomplete, not community-vetted, and subject to change.
Documents LinkedIn production JavaScript that probes thousands of Chrome extension IDs through web-accessible resources, supplements the results with passive DOM scans, and sends encrypted telemetry. The study reconstructs the modules, feature flags, data format and growth of the extension list from deployed bundles.
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