Title: Detect Browser Extensions?
Last modified: December 11, 2016

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# Detect Browser Extensions?

 *  [mitchellk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mitchellk/)
 * (@mitchellk)
 * [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/detect-browser-extensions/)
 * Came across this plugin and wondered how you could adapt this to detect the extensions
   a browser has installed?
 * For instance WordPress Theme Detectors like [https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/wordpress-theme-and-plugi/jdflfokckhmchfpokjmpcoblghjngjja?hl=en](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/wordpress-theme-and-plugi/jdflfokckhmchfpokjmpcoblghjngjja?hl=en)
 * Google has some docs on detecting extensions but have no idea how one would /
   could write a plugin or modify this plugin to detect extensions like this ??
 * [https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/content_scripts#host-page-communication](https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/content_scripts#host-page-communication)
   
   [https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/management](https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/management)

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 *  Plugin Author [Mattias](https://wordpress.org/support/users/darkwhispering/)
 * (@darkwhispering)
 * [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/detect-browser-extensions/#post-8544815)
 * Unfortunately the links you shared are not related to how to have a website detect
   what extensions are installed in a users browser.
 * There is no way for a website to do this kind of detection mainly due to privacy
   concerns as you would be able to get a list of every users extensions and by 
   so also potentially track and collect data about specific user behavior and more.
 * An extension however can alter HTML on a webpage, making it look like the website
   detected the extension, when it was actually the opposite happening.

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 * Last activity: [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/detect-browser-extensions/#post-8544815)
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