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LinkedIn Is Illegally Searching Your Computer (browsergate.eu)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/technology@hexbear.net
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[–] 46 points 6 months ago (15 children)

illegally searching the browser extensions and anything it can find from the browser sandbox. Very different than 'Searching your Computer'

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  • [+] 30 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (5 children)
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  • [–] 16 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    I hope they do. Hard to imagine a more ethical use for browser 0days than messing with LinkedIn users.

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  • [–] 22 points 6 months ago* (3 children)

    hey i resent that.

    I need it coz i'm passionate about not starving and it's the de facto job board in my field

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  • [–] [S] 8 points 6 months ago (7 children)

    Extensions exist on my computer and this is searching my computer for them. The title is technically correct by definition.

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  • [–] 17 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    Title is blantently misleading.

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  • [–] [S] 15 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    If it's:

    • On my computer, and
    • You're trying to discover it, and
    • I didn't grant permission

    It's an illegal search of my computer. The title is correct. That you don't feel as strongly about software liberty and allow definitions to erode over time is your problem.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Sorry, I didn't realize that misleading clickbait post titles was a key cornerstone of software liberty.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Enforcing definitions is part of software liberty. Look at free software vs open source as a very real, very widely impacting example. There’s nothing misleading about the title on a factual basis. If you can’t see that yet I hope one day you will and look back on this comment in a different light.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    You honestly think one day I'm going to wake up and think "LinkedIn's website is searching chrome for extensions" is too precise and factual, the right thing to do was to use a headline that would obviously imply to the average person (including average tech user and average free software advocate) that LinkedIn (the website? App? Windows 11 component? Who knows?) was scanning your whole hard drive!

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    • [–] 35 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    Not worried about LinkedIn because you don't have one? Try pressing shift-control-alt-windows-L on Windows.

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    [–] 9 points 6 months ago
    1. Create LinkedIn acct in a privacy-oriented browser on Linux with a VPN up.
    2. Submit your best times to the "LinkedIn Account Ban Any%" category leaderboards.
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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago

    Most browsers now are Chromium based, which can use the same extensions (and often do by default) as are in the chrome web store. But, yes, something webkit based or a firefox derivative should avoid that portion of the awful things happening here.

    But the fact that you basically can't do anything on linkedin without logging into an account, and they really push for your account to have all of your real life information in it, and they have 3 distinct fingerprinting and tracking systems running to monitor anything your account does on the website (and allows your boss to see)... It's not great.

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    • [–] 9 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Is this different from browser fingerprinting?

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    • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    I got banned from Linkedin for trolling my wife's old boss.

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    • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    I've been accused of not being a real person by freelance clients because I didn't have a LinkedIn or social media presence. I hate that I have it now, and the number one reason I want a job is so I can not be on it anymore.

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