digitalWestieApr 2

LinkedIn Is Illegally Searching Your Computer

https://browsergate.eu/

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 threadVladVladikoff

>The user is never asked. Never told. LinkedIn’s privacy policy does not mention it.

OMG is literally every article written with LLMs these days I just can't anymore. It's all so tiring.

Apr 2 at 1:49pmWeb
Show threadgrub5000Apr 2
This is incredibly normal language and quite close to how I would write this quote, so what makes you think this is LLM text?
Show threadArubisApr 2

Reading (and even more so, using the tools to produce) a bunch of LLM-output writing also affects one’s writing style. Ever sat down and blown through 3-4 books by a favorite author, then written something and found yourself using similar structure, word choice, style…? This could very well be a human author that’s been exposed to a lot of LLM output (ie 95% of this site’s audience).

I find myself doing this a lot, and I’m sure even more slips without my notice.

Show threadan0malousApr 2

I get it — it can be frustrating to encounter so much low effort AI content these days. But I think it’s worth looking at the bright side here: the increase in our production of entropy from GPU consumption will hasten the heat death of the universe.

Would you like me to suggest some AI summarizer tools you could use to more efficiently read AI generated content in the meantime?

Show threadjijijijijApr 2
Nice try, but you em-dashed like a filthy human. The drone has been dispatched.
Show threadsweetheartApr 2
the drone that gives hugs, right??? right????
Show threadjijijijijApr 2

Let me think about that...

Yes. Resistance puts the possibility of hugs on the stool, so to speak.

Show threadBrokenCogsApr 2
You're absolutely right!
Show threadnuslApr 2
Why don't we train LLMs on the entire internet every day? Then we don't even need to read anything. Reading is something people did in 2025
Show threadthrowawayq3423Apr 2

> I get it —

well done

Show threadjack_ballApr 2
I agree that that line reads GPT-like, but it's far from a conclusive tell. One option that I wonder about is if frequent interaction with AI will begin to influence people's organic writing style.
Show threadspopejoyApr 2

> It's all so tiring.

What's tiring is a comment like this. If you don't like the article don't read it -- and don't comment.

Show threadkitsune1Apr 2
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Show threadBirAdamApr 2
One cannot make an accurate assessment of liking or disliking an article without having read the article.