Yea, well that was my first though, but then I though - why would chrome even allow any website to just arbitrary check which extensions you have installed.
So I checked the scripts and at this line the script is showing
So I thought maybe they were calling the chromewebstore foreach plugin, and if you have an extension already installed, you get a different response than when you don’t - or something.
But I suppose I’m wrong and for some reason a site can just ask the browser internally which plugins are installed
Uhm, doesn’t really sound like this could be true. Maybe I’m missing something?
You’d see 2953 get requests in your network tab, right?
And the article says:
Surely it would be drastically noticeable if for every page load they do 3k get requests to the chrome store
Dude it asks your browser, not the chrome store.
Yea, well that was my first though, but then I though - why would chrome even allow any website to just arbitrary check which extensions you have installed.
So I checked the scripts and at this line the script is showing
async function fetchExtensionInfo(extensionId) { return new Promise((resolve) => { const url = `https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/$%7BextensionId%7D`;So I thought maybe they were calling the chromewebstore foreach plugin, and if you have an extension already installed, you get a different response than when you don’t - or something.
But I suppose I’m wrong and for some reason a site can just ask the browser internally which plugins are installed