Comment by Aurornis
4 hours ago
I suggest everyone take a look at the list of extensions and their names for some very important context: https://github.com/mdp/linkedin-extension-fingerprinting/blo...
I didn't find popular extensions like uBlock or other ad blockers.
The list is full of scammy looking data collection and AI tools, though. Some random names from scrolling through the list:
- LinkedGPT: ChatGPT for LinkedIn
- Apollo Scraper - Extract & Export Apollo B2B Leads
- AI Social Media Assistant
- LinkedIn Engagement Assistant
- LinkedIn Lead Magnet
- LinkedIn Extraction Tool - OutreachSheet
- Highperformr AI - Phone Number and Email Finder
- AI Agent For Jobs
These look like the kind of tools scummy recruiters and sales people use to identify targets for mass spamming. I see several AI auto-application tools in there too.
> I suggest everyone take a look at the list of extensions and their names for some very important context[…] I didn't find popular extensions like uBlock
Unsurprising outcome since uBlock (specifically: uBlock Origin Lite, the only version available for Chrome on the Chrome Web Store) makes itself undetectable using this method. (All of its content-accessible resources have "use_dynamic_url" set to "true" in its extension manifest.) So its absence in this data is not dispositive of any actual intent by LinkedIn to exclude it—because they couldn't have included it even if they wanted to.
LinkedIn itself provides tools for scummy recruiters to mass spam, so this is just them protecting their business.
Also, not all of them are data collection tools. There are ad blockers listed (Hide LinkedIn Ads, SBlock - Super Ad Blocker) and just general extensions (Ground News - Bias Checker, Jigit Studio - Screen Recorder, RealEyes.ai — Detect Deepfakes Across Online Platforms, Airtable Clipper).