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LinkedIn Is Illegally Searching Your Computer (browsergate.eu)
submitted 4 months ago by themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Microsoft is running one of the largest corporate espionage operations in modern history. Every time any of LinkedIn’s one billion users visits linkedin.com, hidden code searches their computer for installed software, collects the results, and transmits them to LinkedIn’s servers and to third-party companies including an American-Israeli cybersecurity firm.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47613981

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[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

First comment from the link:

Every time you open LinkedIn in a Chrome-based browser, LinkedIn’s JavaScript executes a silent scan of your installed browser extensions. The scan probes for thousands of specific extensions by ID, collects the results, encrypts them, and transmits them to LinkedIn’s servers.

That is very different from “searches their computer for installed software”

[–] credo@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Well, I guess it’s technically installed software… but the scope is significantly less than what’s implied from the headline. My immediate reaction was, “how?”

This is basically standard browser fingerprinting, hence why it’s sold for surveillance activities. Linked in is big brother.

[–] crystalmerchant@lemmy.world -1 points 4 months ago

DuckDuckGo my friends