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. The user is never asked. Never told. LinkedIn’s privacy policy does not mention it. Because LinkedIn knows each user’s real name, employer, and job title, it is not searching anonymous visitors. It is searching identified people at identified companies. Millions of companies. Every day. All over the world.
  • treadful@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    14 days ago

    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.

    A bit gross, but also just kind of how browser extensions that interact with Web sites work.

    • brax@sh.itjust.works
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      2 days ago

      Been saying for as long as I found out Chrome can program USB shit that it needs to be put out of its misery. Web browsers do not need that level of control… The amount of sensor data they take in is also incredibly alarming.

      It’s a fucking web browser. It has one job: browse the web. There is 0 reason for it to be sending websites GPS locations, phone orientation, battery percentage, hardware information, screen brightness, etc etc etc