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		eimrine on Feb 19, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: New headless Chrome has been released and has a ne... > navigator.plugins.length = 0 So, any website on the Internets can know how many plugins my browser has? Ridiculously!

joshschreuder on Feb 19, 2023 [–]

It would seem like no, in recent times at least. In recent browser versions (Chrome 94+, Firefox 99+, etc.) it's been changed to only report the default PDF plugins

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Navigator/p...

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