I am developing a chrome extension that should generate unique ID per browser. My current approach is to generate a random string and store it in chrome.storage. It works but when I disable the first extension and install the same extension under different extension ID, another browser ID is generated. I am looking for something like global storage for every extension to store the generated ID. Does such thing exist? Messaging between extensions is not possible because one extension is always off.
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2No such thing. You can set a cookie on a dummy domain or use a web server e.g. github gist API. – wOxxOm Oct 07 '17 at 15:22
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1May be `chrome.identity` might be useful? Got this from another SO answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/25852534/6016779 – Keerthi Kumar P Oct 07 '17 at 16:10