Is there a site like ‘cover your tracks’ for showing that websites can see what extensions I have (as opposed to other fingerprinting)? Thank you 🙃

  • Retiring@lemmy.ml
    6·
    1 year ago

    This says it only detects chrome extensions, so I am not surprised it doesn’t detect your Firefox extensions. Why do you say that Firefox won’t leak extensions at all? Do you have a source for that?

    • Atemu@lemmy.ml
      3·
      1 year ago

      Detecting extensions using web accessible resources is not possible on Firefox as Firefox extension ID’s are unique for every browser instance. Therefore the URL of the extension resources cannot be known by third parties.

      and also for Chrome:

      in manifest v3 extensions will be able to enable ‘use_dynamic_url’ option, which will change the resource URL for each session (browser restart). This will render this detection method unusable.

      Though it should be noted that this method isn’t the only way to detect extensions.

      • mintycactus@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 year ago

        Do you mean this issue is going to be solved only with mv3 implementation? That leaves other chromium browsers staying with both mv2 and mv3 with this issue unresolved…

    • mintycactus@lemmy.world
      14·
      1 year ago

      Not really. But the site says it works only with chrome desktop, not firefox desktop. I have Kiwi installed and Firefox as well to test both, Firefox extensions were not detected.

      • Atemu@lemmy.ml
        1·
        1 year ago

        The way it’s written doesn’t say whether it simply isn’t made to work for Firefox or whether it couldn’t be made to work for Firefox. Fortunately, the latter appears to be the case.