LinkedIn has been overtly evil for decades, and their power users are the most insufferable sort of middle management yuppy scum. I know job searching can be hard, but I don't go near LinkedIn with a ten foot pole.
LinkedIn is searching your browser extensions
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Re: LinkedIn is searching your browser extensions
#22It seems it scans your extensions not your system - reading the details. The intro made it a bit unclear.
Still pretty annoying browsers haven't patched that yet.
Re: LinkedIn is searching your browser extensions
#23How a web site can search one's computer?
Re: LinkedIn is searching your browser extensions
#24It seems it scans your extensions not your system - reading the details. The intro made it a bit unclear.
LinkedIn is far from the only actor doing this. Browser extension fingerprinting is not new. LinkedIn‘s size, scope, network effects make this especially concerning.
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#25LinkedIn has been overtly evil for decades, and their power users are the most insufferable sort of middle management yuppy scum. I know job searching can be hard, but I don't go near LinkedIn with a ten foot pole.
I really like going to linkedin daily to play minisudoku and a couple of other puzzles, then never engage the feed or other features
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#26The title is a complete nonsense.
Yeah I agree
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#27Why can't we have nice things?
Because we let them get away with it. Take something they're going to miss and can't replace (e.g. their freedom or their head) and it will stop as long as enforcement is reliable enough that they expect to get caught.
These aren't good people, but if you make the fine to the organisation much more expensive than the expected return, lock up the whole board and leave their families without a pot to piss in we will see this become the exception instead of the norm.
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#28Why can't we have nice things?
because corporate greed corrupts every nice thing: it pushes the other (maybe more moral) 'nice thing' alternatives out of the ecosystem by subsiding using VC funding to provide 'NiceThing!' for free until 'NiceThing!' is the monopoly or bought by another entity to become part of the monopoly (due to weak/not enforced antitrust laws).
Re: LinkedIn is searching your browser extensions
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LinkedIn is a job board so that seems unlikely.
Are you kidding? They've probably been selling a datastream of who in the company has been job searching to company HR departments the whole time. Search for a job on LinkedIn and I bet anybody with a paid corporate account can find that out if they care to.