Metin Seven 🎨9h ago

LinkedIn Is Illegally Searching Your Computer

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LinkedIn Is Illegally Searching Your Computer

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.

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Show threadStefan Ihringer
@metin holy moly. I'm relieved that I've closed my account 2 months ago although for different reasons...
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Show threadMetin Seven 🎨9h ago

@compfu 😆👍

I've also left LinkedIn some time ago. It has become Facebook part 2. Extremely annoying posts, people, notifications, UI / UX, bots, algorithms, tracking and AI misery. 😖👎

Show threadDagnabbit, Pascaline! 💥7h ago

@metin

So true, I could no longer stand it, and each reply was 'Look at me' promoting themselves.

I wonder: does the search take place if you visit it without logging in? Because in some cases this works. Or does LI only search if a user is actively logged in?

@compfu

Show threadStefan Ihringer7h ago
@pascaline @metin I've skimmed the article and it seems like they are brute-force searching for installed Chrome extensions. I can imagine that this is useful information for them, even if you're not logged in (there might be other browser fingerprinting techniques going on to identify you) but it's most useful to check if they know your actual name.
Show threadDagnabbit, Pascaline! 💥7h ago

@compfu

I don't use Chrome at all, so that's good.
But I have to use Edge because some of their stuff doesn't work in other browsers. I wonder how deeply they go into personal settings and other stuff.

@metin