floofloof@lemmy.ca to Privacy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoLinkedIn Is Illegally Searching Your Computerbrowsergate.euexternal-linkmessage-square12linkfedilinkarrow-up1120arrow-down16file-textcross-posted to: world@lemmy.worldtechnology@lemmy.worldprivacy@lemmy.mlprivacy@lemmy.caprivacy@lemmy.mlprivacy@programming.devhackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se
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minus-squareFeyd@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up72·2 months ago Every time you open LinkedIn in a Chrome-based browser, LinkedIn’s JavaScript executes a silent scan of your installed browser extensions. Still wrong, but but not quite as scary as “searches their computer for installed software” which makes it sound like it broke out of browser sandbox
minus-squareAtelopus-zeteki@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up17·2 months agoJokes on them, I never use chrome, and never go to Link’in. I guess they’ll never know who I really am, by extension.
minus-squarenull@lemmy.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoIsn’t that what most mainstream sites try to do anyway?
Still wrong, but but not quite as scary as “searches their computer for installed software” which makes it sound like it broke out of browser sandbox
Jokes on them, I never use chrome, and never go to Link’in. I guess they’ll never know who I really am, by extension.
Isn’t that what most mainstream sites try to do anyway?