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Browsergate: Linkedin Secretly Scans 6,000 Browser Extensions at Each connection... and You Can't Stop It, Triggering a Controversy and Two Class Actions
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Each visit to LinkedIn from a Chromium-based browser triggers, without your knowledge, a silent inventory of your installed extensions, more than 6,000 in total. What the platform presents as an anti-scraping device, its critics call it a mass profiling system. Two collective actions were filed in California in early April 2026, and European regulators are beginning to pay close attention to the file.It all starts with a 2.7-megabyte JavaScript …
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