BrianKrebsLinkedin is totally blocking my browser from connecting. And maybe that's for the best.
I swear, every time my browser has some kind of issue, it's LinkedIn's fault. The site is constantly doing stupid shit. And then I'm like, jeez, do I really have 9 LinkedIn tabs going? No wonder my browser is buckling.
Allan Chow@briankrebs it's adding everyone to your network
2xfo@briankrebs
I don't know that it would matter but Microsoft owns LinkedIn. Maybe they mine crypto unless your user agent is Edge 🫠
I don't know that it would matter but Microsoft owns LinkedIn. Maybe they mine crypto unless your user agent is Edge 🫠
rye@briankrebs For me I think it is Facebook doing something funky. My cursor stops responding interactively (best way to describe it). If I keep Facebook tabs in a separate window it's fine.
James M.@briankrebs has Microsoft ever acquired something and made it better?
Stuart Longland (VK4MSL)They did give us XMLHttpRequest… but yes, it's mostly been downhill.
I think I did the right thing blocking LinkedIn years ago. Too many emails claiming: "Ohh, {mips,mozilla}@gentoo.org… so-and-so thinks they know you, can you confirm?!"
@stuartl @briankrebs that's funny-- I too have always thought XHR was the only thing MS ever gave us. And they didn't even do it right, or even name it right. And it wasn't some genius move anyway, the need was obvious for JS to have network access.
@jamesmarshall @briankrebs Never said the gift was "perfect"… but ohh, it was so much nicer than the kludges needed for asynchronously fetching data in the browser beforehand!!!
Michael Richardson@briankrebs linked just errors for me, I gave up using it. Some issues were perhaps uBlock, Privacy Badger related, but in the end I thought: if it's violating so many things so badly, maybe I just don't need it. I still miss G+.
AMS@briankrebs That's what those browser test VMs are for.
John Breen@briankrebs When Microsoft bought LinkedIn, I was pretty much done with LinkedIn. I'm sure it works better with Edge on Win11.
Dirk Hohndel@briankrebs
Running it in a Firefox private window with Ghostry makes it a lot less annoying...
Running it in a Firefox private window with Ghostry makes it a lot less annoying...
0815@briankrebs Is that a new browser for the workplace? Raising productivity😉
AI6YR Ben@briankrebs I've been somewhat bemused to find a handful websites who won't let me in because of running Linux-on-the-desktop (some admin assuming anything running on Linux would be software, not human, I guess).
john spurling@briankrebs LinkedIn? More like LockedOut amirite
David Penfold 
@briankrebs My jokes go down like a fart in a lift on there 🤪
birdpoofI while back I blocked ALL cookies related to Twitter (and now X), which prevented the website from loading at all. Out of curiosity, I lifted the block to see what it was setting--25 MB of cookies. Wild. And yes, I thought--definitely for the best.
ₛᵤₙdᵣᵤᵢd@briankrebs That happens to me when I'm running a VPN sometimes. It just doesn't work and I'm banging my head wondering what's wrong. Then, 'oh yeah' and once turned off they quit sending my requests to dev/null
@Sundruid that's just it. one minute it was working, and next not. reset all the cookies and site settings and even the browser and flushed the socket cache (chrome://net-internals/). no dice. still just "error socket not connected," and other random unhelpful messages.
Marc Etienne@briankrebs this happened a few years ago to me, as I used to use a 2010 iMac, and Apple stopped updating Safari for it (other than security updates). LinkedIn decided that instead of just letting me see “broken" CSS and JS, it was better to just show me a page scolding me for using vintage software.
Which in the end meant I avoid ever visiting it on my newer devices as well.
Talmai Oliveira@briankrebs happened with me (happens, actually)... it takes like 5 minutes for it to load. trackers everywhere is my guess, and that's when they timeout
Ian Kluft 🖥️📡@briankrebs Some sites have started blocking browsers that block their insidously invasive trackers (IIT). I just go to their competition. Nobody is important enough for that.
VessOnSecurity@briankrebs Which browser? I suspect that it isn't blocking the browser but some add-on is interfering with it.
@bontchev it was Chrome. Disabled all add-ons and restarted. No love.
@briankrebs I just tried Chrome (I normally don't use it) and it opened the site just fine. Didn't try to log in, though.
New visitors are presented with a cookie banner. If something in your browser hides the banner, you can't click on the Accept/Reject buttons and since the banner is modal, you can't click anywhere else on the site, either. Maybe this is what you're observing. I've had this happen with Opera on another site. Try incognito mode?
SophieToupie@briankrebs which browser do you use? I can’t use certain sites with Firefox. Some sites also doesn’t allow VPN like streaming services, social media, etc.