Microsoft is running one of the largest corporate espionage operations in modern history. Every time any of LinkedIn’s one billion users visits linkedin.com, hidden code searches their computer for installed software, collects the results, and transmits them to LinkedIn’s servers and to third-party companies including an American-Israeli cybersecurity firm.
The user is never asked. Never told. LinkedIn’s privacy policy does not mention it.
Because LinkedIn knows each user’s real name, employer, and job title, it is not searching anonymous visitors. It is searching identified people at identified companies. Millions of companies. Every day. All over the world.
Oh, browser extensions. And specifically on chromium browsers.
Yeah, that makes much more sense than “any installed software”. It also throws out their claim of this being illegal. Using a browser API endpoint to say “hey do you have this extension” isn’t illegal, at least in most countries.
Is this shitty behavior? Yes. Is this anywhere near what their clickbait title and honestly clickbait article claim? Not in the slightest.
Eh, I can see how that might work under EU law. So I suppose there’s a potential for it to be illegal in the EU then.
Though I do question the extent that could reach, since “left leaning lesbians looking for work only browser” could be the user agent if someone was so inclined. Admittedly though, that’s outside the scope of this argument.
I’m sorry, how exactly is a website searching my computer from within a locked down browser?
https://browsergate.eu/how-it-works/
I can’t tell you if that’s technically sound but that’s what was said on the page linked…
Oh, browser extensions. And specifically on chromium browsers.
Yeah, that makes much more sense than “any installed software”. It also throws out their claim of this being illegal. Using a browser API endpoint to say “hey do you have this extension” isn’t illegal, at least in most countries.
Is this shitty behavior? Yes. Is this anywhere near what their clickbait title and honestly clickbait article claim? Not in the slightest.
The title is shit but they explain why they think it’s illegal: https://browsergate.eu/why-its-illegal/
Eh, I can see how that might work under EU law. So I suppose there’s a potential for it to be illegal in the EU then.
Though I do question the extent that could reach, since “left leaning lesbians looking for work only browser” could be the user agent if someone was so inclined. Admittedly though, that’s outside the scope of this argument.
Okay, so is there a browser plugin that can di ply hide the plugins that I have installed?
Don’t use a chromium browser, from the looks of it.