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John Gordon 📷22h ago

Miguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉

The herpes of the internet is back at it: 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.

BrowserGate

Miguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉23h ago

Not to brag, but I haven’t used chrome since I bought my MacPro in 2019 or so?

I switched to safari to see if I could survive on it. Once every couple of months I need to use chrome for something (like a broken web site), but generally haven’t missed it.

Karl Baron 23h ago

@Migueldeicaza I switched to Safari with the first Retina MacBook Pro (2012?) since Chrome was so laggy with the high res screen. Tried to go back a year later and it was still noticeably laggy. Never bothered since.

I do have to use chrome occasionally to test/fix compatibility for stuff I make for work.

noah witherspoon 23h ago

@Migueldeicaza the one time I’ve appreciated Google’s “just ship everything” sort of attitude was when I ran across a site that used WebUSB to talk to a microcontroller plugged into my machine. that’s cool. but the tradeoff is sketchy fuckers like LinkedIn being able to do stuff like this. not worth it. Safari forever.

Alper Çuğun-Gscheidel 23h ago

@Migueldeicaza Safari with tab groups are my daily driver and it works a treat.

Stephen H. Gerstacker 22h ago

@Migueldeicaza I encounter maybe one broken site a year, and in that case I try Firefox first.

Most of the time though, a site breaks because Pihole stopped some shitty JS from running and the site couldn’t handle it properly.

Miguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉20h ago

@stack oh yes, that was a thing when I had Pihole

Frank Quednau 21h ago

@Migueldeicaza I‘m a defaults fan, hence why I use Safari. It generally works for me.

@Migueldeicaza I only ever need it for things that need low level USB access to load firmware. And it makes me feel dirty to use it for even that but I do.

Miguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉16h ago

@djb_rh Sounds like that might be be useful! One day, one day!

Phillip Upton 16h ago

I’m a web dev and last week was the first time in more than 5 years that I needed chrome… to fix a bug that only occurred in chrome.

Otherwise I use primarily use safari.

Any time safari hasn’t worked for a web site… firefox has.

Tho, I don’t use most sites “normal” people do… like google or youtube or any other properties from companies that have primary income from advertising. (meta)

@Migueldeicaza I've never used Chrome - even after being badgered to do so. I never quite uninstalled it off anyones computer but I came close.

@Migueldeicaza Never used Chrome except to interact with Google Drive until a house utility website started acting funny on Safari & only Chrome would fix it. Luckily the website was fixed a month later & now works on Safari again 🙂

Franklin Delano Stallone 1d ago

@Migueldeicaza LinkedIn is broken on a fundamental and barely useful as a product, imo.

I’m genuinely surprised there doesn’t seem to be an alternative that isn’t some pre-LinkedIn that’s just outdated and feels slightly scammy.

A decent job listing site doesn’t feel like it should be that hard to do and if you’re not trying to be a billion dollar company then it should be a decent way to make money.

Even with the issues of moderation, just don’t try making it a social media site.

Miguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉23h ago

@fds network effects perhaps? And once you extract that value, you add other bits, and it becomes harder to dislodge

Leo Bistmans 1d ago

@Migueldeicaza do we have a FireFox plugin to make their Chrome hacks work?
=8-]

Conny Nasch 21h ago

@Migueldeicaza thank goodness I stopped using it 3 years ago! What a BoB!

@Migueldeicaza not that I use Chrome, but this is disgusting, so I deleted muy LinkedIn account today. Nothing important or real was lost.