Credits

Browsergate

is an investigation and campaign by

Fairlinked - Allianz für digitale Fairness e.V.
c/o Postflex #9498
Emsdettener Str. 10
48268 Greven

Amtsgericht Steinfurt, VR 2059

Board Members: S.Morell | J. Liebling M. Sayed

Special Thanks

• Jay-O
  • security researcher from the US who tipped us off - Thanks!
• Mark Percival
  • for running this research https://github.com/mdp/linkedin-extension-fingerprinting
• Dan Andrews (GitHub: dandrews/nefarious-linkedin)
  • First documented LinkedIn’s extension detection in 2017
  • Found 38 extensions being tracked at the time
• Josef Kadlec
  • Documented growth to 461 extensions by 2024
• Soroush Karami, Panagiotis Ilia, Konstantinos Solomos, Jason Polakis
  • University of Illinois at Chicago, USA for the research and the peer reviewed publication of the
  • Carnus paper (NDSS 2020, University of Illinois Chicago) which demonstrated the harm that such fingerprinting attacks have on user privacy.