Why is my Chrome telling random websites which extensions I have installed?
Chrome always makes tracking easier. It’s their blind spot, because google.
LinkedIn is scanning browser extensions
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Re: LinkedIn is scanning browser extensions
#142One trick to evade some of LinkedIn's detection:
A big part of its detection relies on finding known extension resources at URLs of the form `chrome-extension://{extension_id}/{file}`
An extension installed from the Chrome store has the same `extension_id` for every user. But, if you just extract the source for that extension, and then load it yourself, you'll get a NEW extension_id. Same extension with the same functionality, but its extension_id will be completely new so impossible for LinkedIn to query.
Granted this won't evade the second type of detection LinkedIn employs, it'll help you evade quite a bit. I often clone extension source code anyway since it mostly protects me from malicious extension updates (by effectively disabling updates).
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#144Earlier quoted context omitted.
I thought the whole point of LinkedIn was getting a job, but that would run afoul of #7. You can ignore the rest of the crap on their website.
How ever did people get jobs before recruiters? /s
If you write a decent covering letter and enclose a CV (resume) and get it to my desk, I might be inclined to be interested in you.
That's how things used to be done. Recruiters did exist but you generally got off your arse and impressed a potential employer with a well laid out CV as an invitation to call to interview.
Nowadays it appears that people want to circumvent all that complicated effort bollocks. You simply spray yourself across some social media wankery and let's face it LinkedIn is the supreme example of wankery and some grateful employer will pick you up.
The next time you are considering buying a record player to engage with the past in some sort of misty eyed histrionics session, why not buy a pen and paper and write a letter and impress someone with your turn of phrase? Enclose a CV (resume) for maximum effect.
... "Nurse ... nurse ... my dried frog pills have started dancing on my eyeballs ... nurse ... "
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Well, how? Recruiters got me job offers when I graduated college. I had no connections otherwise.
You search for job advertisements, and then send in an application!
But that application goes to a recruiter. Guess if you mean the site shouldn't have recruiters doing the cold-calling, idk maybe, but then the game is in getting the recruiters to read your application. This is different from having connections.
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"What's the actual problem? I mean, yeah, time passed by... And nowadays everyone assumes that all these services are kind of fine, just because time passed by." no no no no no no no, These sites go on the blacklist.
Either it was there since day 1, together with Facebook and some others, or your blacklist is a pointless show.
What nobody started discussing so far: Every user actively pushed these shady sites. They are/were all active parts of the problem. And usually they somehow knew it. They'll come with lame excuses, as if the issue ever was a technical one, and too difficult to get, but in fact, no, things cannot be more obvious. To everyone who ever got in touch with other human beings. It never was a tech problem.
I'm excited when this discussion will start. But we are far away from it yet.
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#148Earlier quoted context omitted.
LinkedIn is a cesspool, but it’s almost worthless to me without the recruiters. They’re basically the only reason I’m there.
Also a lack of LinkedIn account makes you more suspicious and less likely to get hired. So this is additional value in having an account. For appearances.
That really depends on the field. Only one position asked about my LinkedIn. And that was because they had you apply via the site.
I didn't apply, because fuck that inside out.
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#149Earlier quoted context omitted.
You search for job advertisements, and then send in an application!
But that application goes to a recruiter. Guess if you mean the site shouldn't have recruiters doing the cold-calling, idk maybe, but then the game is in getting the recruiters to read your application. This is different from having connections.
I think OP was referring to applying direct with the company doing the hiring. This is how I landed my first several jobs in tech, no recruiters involved.