Mark Wyner Won’t Comply 5h ago

WARNING: LinkedIn has your profile. They have more from illegally spying on you.

“LinkedIn started injecting malicious code into the browsers of their users, without their knowledge or their consent. At the time of writing, this code downloads a list of 6,222 software products and brute-forces the detection of each one.”

More info:
https://browsergate.eu/executive-summary/

What you can do:
https://browsergate.eu/take-action/

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Show threadMark Wyner Won’t Comply 5h ago

The BrowserGate folks have provided an evidence pack, proving the scraping of data from your computer.

This includes a sworn affidavit by LinkedIn’s Senior Manager of Software Engineering and Machine Learning, Milinda Lakkam. It’s an admission of guilt. Under oath.

https://browsergate.eu/the-evidence-pack/

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The Evidence Pack

Everything on this page is independently verifiable. The source code speaks for itself. Its own engineer, under oath, admits it. Exhibit 1 — LinkedIn’s JavaScript bundle File: 5fdhwcppjcvqvxsawd8pg1n51.js Size: ~2.7 MB (13,159 lines of minified JavaScript) Webpack chunk: chunk.905 This is the file LinkedIn serves to every Chrome user who visits linkedin.com. It contains a hardcoded array of 6,222 Chrome extension IDs, each paired with a specific internal file path that LinkedIn engineers mapped for detection.

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Show threadJarrod Urban
@markwyner Did you read the affidavit? From what I can gather, your statement is not true.
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Show threadDemokritus Jorik 1h ago
@jarrodu @markwyner please elaborate.
Show threadJarrod Urban42m ago

@serigala_tropis @markwyner They use machine learning to infer users using scraping tools. This is what the affidavit says. It does not mean they are scanning people computers.

They also say why they are doing this. It is a defensive move to reduce traffic that violates their terms of service and that can lead to service outages.

It is worth reading. It is just a few pages long.

https://browsergate.eu/downloads/Lakam-affidavit-redacted.pdf

Show threadDemokritus Jorik 37m ago
@jarrodu @markwyner boosted so I hope more people can see your post.