There is a fresh thing going around about LinkedIn scanning extensions installed in Chrome/Chromium:
https://browsergate.eu/
The website claims "LinkedIn is Illegally Searching Your Computer", and implies the purpose is to find "religious beliefs, political opinions, disabilities".
tl;dr:
- yes, LinkedIn is scanning through a list of 6k+ extensions on Chrome;
- yes, this is bad;
- but the website is disingenuous in making unnecessarily overblown claims.
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#LinkedIn #BrowserGate #Privacy
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
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Hacker, activist, free-softie ◈ techie luddite ◈ formerly information security and infrastructure at https://isnic.is/ and https://occrp.org/ ◈ my opinions are my own etc. (he/him) ⁂ profile image: drawing of a head and shoulders of a cat-person, in a space suit. banner image: long-exposure photo of a large tent, brightly illuminated from inside, looking as if it is made of lava #foss #libre #privacy #infosec #fedi22 (public toots CC By-SA 4.0 if applicable) 🇪🇺 🇵🇱 · 🇧🇦 🇮🇸 · 🇺🇦
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Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
@rysiek@mstdn.social
Hacker, activist, free-softie ◈ techie luddite ◈ formerly information security and infrastructure at https://isnic.is/ and https://occrp.org/ ◈ my opinions are my own etc. (he/him) ⁂ profile image: drawing of a head and shoulders of a cat-person, in a space suit. banner image: long-exposure photo of a large tent, brightly illuminated from inside, looking as if it is made of lava #foss #libre #privacy #infosec #fedi22 (public toots CC By-SA 4.0 if applicable) 🇪🇺 🇵🇱 · 🇧🇦 🇮🇸 · 🇺🇦
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