LinkedIn Is Illegally Searching Your Computer (browsergate.eu)

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[-] scytale@piefed.zip 16 points 1 month ago

LinkedIn loads an invisible tracking element from HUMAN Security (formerly PerimeterX), an American-Israeli cybersecurity firm, zero pixels wide, hidden off-screen, that sets cookies on your browser without your knowledge. A separate fingerprinting script runs from LinkedIn’s own servers. A third script from Google executes silently on every page load. All of it encrypted. None of it disclosed.

Can’t uBO block this with custom filters?

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 month ago

I don't know, but I just added a DNS override on my home network to resolve *.linkedin.com to 0.0.0.0.

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