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Open LinkedIn in Chrome right now. While you're scrolling through another "I'm humbled to announce" post, JavaScript is quietly running in your browser, probing your installed extensions one by one. Not a handful of them. Thousands. This isn't specul...

Cryptography is precise. Browsers are not. If you’ve implemented WebAuthn in a real PWA, you already know this:The spec is clean. The user experience is not. The uncomfortable truth is this: Most authentication systems fail because of UX, not becaus...

We all love browser extensions—they block ads, save passwords, and boost productivity. But what most users don’t realize is that many of these helpful tools also act as silent data collectors. In 2025, the number of browser extensions requesting unne...
