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🚨 LinkedIn runs a silent browser scan on every Chrome user who visits the site. 6,222 extensions. ~405 million users affected. No consent, no disclosure, no mention in their privacy policy.

The scan identifies your sales tools, VPN, ad blocker, job search extensions, and extensions tied to religion, politics, and disability.

The full technical breakdown, legal analysis, and searchable database of every scanned extension:

https://browsergate.eu

#LinkedIn #BrowserGate #privacy

I'm working on a YouTube mini series explaining the Fediverse!!

Who are the most knowledgeable people in this realm who I should definitely talk to?

What do you think is important to include in my series? I want to hear thoughts!!

LLM-bro: "Why do you still read whole books and type your excerpts by hand? That's so slow! You know that AI could tell you what's important much faster, right?"

Me: "Because I will always prefer understanding texts to just processing them. Also, I think being able to formulate a coherent argument without my laptop is increasingly becoming an asset."

📣 Why is the entire Fediverse not yet talking about the new documentary "Ghost In The Machine"?

> A feature documentary charting the untold origins of artificial intelligence. This is not a story about machines, it is a story about power.

 Watch the trailer. Boost this post. Then go to their website for screening details.

https://youtu.be/i9DAv0D7tnY

#GhostInTheMachine #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #SurveillanceCapitalism #technoFascism

Stop renting the cloud and start owning your setup.

https://itsfoss.com/self-hosting-starting-projects/

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