Mastodawn

RE: https://mstdn.social/@osnews/116352453766199250

"OK we want our website to know which software you have installed"
"You can't do that"
"Sure, but we want to do it anyway. Maybe we have the software listen on a port and then we can try loading stuff from that port?"
"No. Zoom did that so it got banned"
"OK what about we edit their computer's local config?"

sigh. the shitty arms race continues.

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John Colagioia

@sil And they're finding this at the same time as people notice that LinkedIn is quietly scraping who uses which Chrome plugins, no less. Two MIGHT be a coincidence, but I imagine that we'll find plenty more big companies building these catalogs.