alt Hacker NewsThis is probably a naive question, but...
Doesn't the idea of swapping extension specific IDs to your browser specific extension IDs mean that instead of your browser being identifiable, you become identifiable?
I mean, it goes from "Oh they have X, Y , and Z installed" to "Oh, it's jim bob, only he has that unique set of IDs for extensions"
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b112 • yesterday at 9:28 PM
Maybe, but how long are the extension ids? And if they are random, how long to scan a trillion random alphanumeric ids, to find matches?
I presume the extension knows when it wants to access resources of its own. But random javascript, doesn't.
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It's not a naive question. This comment says it's not possible to do that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46905213