EDIT: @rysiek has an explanation about the shady things LinkedIn is doing. He explains it far better than I did:

https://mstdn.social/@rysiek/116337205401370428

LinkedIn/Microsoft are definitely NOT to be trusted. But I realize phrasing is important. So I’m moderating my own post. I apologize if this was misconstrued.

But I subjectively believe there is a high likelihood that LinkedIn is doing nefarious things with this data.

#BrowserGate #LinkedIn #InfoSec #OpSec #Privacy #YouAreTheProduct #Microsoft

Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 (@[email protected])

There is a fresh thing going around about LinkedIn scanning extensions installed in Chrome/Chromium: https://browsergate.eu/ The website claims "LinkedIn is Illegally Searching Your Computer", and implies the purpose is to find "religious beliefs, political opinions, disabilities". tl;dr: - yes, LinkedIn is scanning through a list of 6k+ extensions on Chrome; - yes, this is bad; - but the website is disingenuous in making unnecessarily overblown claims. 🧵 #LinkedIn #BrowserGate #Privacy

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Thank you for that. 🙌🏻

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