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most automations for sales and marketing use browser extensions... linkedIn wants you using their tools not 3rd party
Their own tools suck, that’s the issue.
I started using Chrome at version 2 I think. It still had the 3D logo. It was such a breath of fresh air and the big innovation was running one process per tab. Firefox existed but the entire browser could (and did) hang. And IE was... well, IE. I did have a relatively early beef with Chrome though, whcih was I couldn't completely opt out of Flash. As in, I didn't even want it installed. This turned out to be an issu…
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In order to create the data source that LinkedIn's extension-fingerprinting relies on to work, someone (at LinkedIn*?) almost certainly violated the Chrome Web Store TOS—by (perversely*) scraping it. * if LinkedIn didn't get it from an existing data source
3000 extensions is few enough that a small team could download each extension manually over a few months. You don't need to scrape at all.
Secondly, it's not "3000 extensions". They didn't somehow magically divine that the 2953 (+/-47) extensions we see here were the ones that they needed to download in order to be able to exploit the content-accessible resources described in their extension manifest. They looked at a much larger set, and it got filtered down to these 2953 that satisfied the necessary criteria.
Looks like Firefox is immune. This works by looking for web accessible resources that are provided by the extensions. For Chrome, these are are available in a webpage via the URL chrome-extension://[PACKAGE ID]/[PATH] https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/reference/manif... On Firefox, web accessible resources are available at "moz-extension:// /myfile.png" is not your extension's ID. This ID is randomly gener…
Are they bit coin mining or are they just incompetent?
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Do they respect my data? Why do they get to track me across sites when I clearly don't want them to but someone can't scrape their data when they don't want them to. Why should big companies get the pass but individuals not? They clearly consider internet traffic fair game and are invasive and abusive about it so it is not only fair to be invasive and abusive back, it is self defense at this point.
Because you signed up to a set of terms and conditions saying LinkedIn can use your data in this way
Oh right, companies change ToS and EULA and "agreements" without notice, without due process, and without recourse.
I have no problem changing how I use "their" data in such situations.
Chrome is the new IE6. Google set themselves up to be the next Microsoft and is "ad friendly" in all the creepy ways because that's what Google IS an ad company. All they've contributed to security is diminishing the capability of adblockers and letting malware to do bad things to you as consumers.
Chrome has become much worse than IE6. Microsoft was not in the business of tracking users and selling ads back then.
LinkedIn has been employing a lot of strange dark patterns recently: * Overriding scroll speed on Firefox Web. Not sure why. * Opening a profile on mobile web, then pressing back to go to last page, takes me to the LinkedIn homepage everytime. * One of their analytic URLs is a randomly generated path on www.linkedin.com, supposedly to make it harder to block. Regex rules on ublock origin sufficiently stop this. Anyon…
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Because you signed up to a set of terms and conditions saying LinkedIn can use your data in this way
What if I signed up before those ToS said they could use my data in this way? Oh right, companies change ToS and EULA and "agreements" without notice, without due process, and without recourse. I have no problem changing how I use "their" data in such situations.
Companies change their terms of service all the time. They usually send emails about it.
I've responded to decline them a handful of times and asked for my account to be deleted. I chuckle slightly at the work it creates, but sometimes it has been easier to close an account that way.
Looks like Firefox is immune. This works by looking for web accessible resources that are provided by the extensions. For Chrome, these are are available in a webpage via the URL chrome-extension://[PACKAGE ID]/[PATH] https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/reference/manif... On Firefox, web accessible resources are available at "moz-extension:// /myfile.png" is not your extension's ID. This ID is randomly gener…
Anecdotally, I sometimes notice my computer fan spinning ferociously... it's almost always because I have left a firefox tab with linkedin open somewhere. Are they bit coin mining or are they just incompetent?