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Your extensions leak clues about you, so we made sure Browser Guard doesn’t

ID: 4b49fad7-70b2-5c9d-87e7-c0ca68896237

STIX ID: report--4b49fad7-70b2-5c9d-87e7-c0ca68896237

Feed Name: Malwarebytes Blog

Date Published: 2026-04-08

Date Updated: 2026-04-28

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**Executive summary:** This article explains how browser extensions can be detected and used to profile users, cites research and incidents (e.g., LinkedIn scanning extensions, Gravy Analytics breach) that illustrate privacy risks, and describes technical mitigations Malwarebytes implemented in Browser Guard (use of browser storage APIs and dynamic URLs) to reduce extension fingerprinting.

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