Mastodawn

LinkedIn Is Illegally Searching Your Computer. Microsoft is running one of the largest corporate espionage operations in modern history https://browsergate.eu/

Is there anything Microsoft is not doing these days?

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.

BrowserGate

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ferricoxide

@nixCraft Or, why:

1. I don't use Chrome or chromium browsers unless I absolutely have to
2. When I do use Chrome, i generally run it inside of a VM (or, on my laptop, a WSL2 container)
3. I have things like EFF's Privacy Badger, uBlock Origin (on my non-Chrome browsers), and NoScript plugins installed
4. I don't really login to LinkedIn (and, to the greatest degree possible, any of the O365 or other MicroSoft-owned sites)

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Joseph Lim

1d ago

@ferricoxide @nixCraft ✅️✅️
I second not using Chrome unless I've absolutely no choice (but LinkedIn doesn't force Chrome on us, yet!), and not logging in LinkedIn unless necessary (no, I don't care about feeds from it nor birthday greets nor social stuff - it's a freakin' professional networking platform not f*book!). And the privacy tools are good ideas, thank you!🙏