Microsoft is running one of the largest corporate espionage operations in modern history. Every time any of LinkedIn’s one billion users visits linkedin.com, hidden code searches their computer for installed software, collects the results, and transmits them to LinkedIn’s servers and to third-party companies including an American-Israeli cybersecurity firm. The user is never asked. Never told. LinkedIn’s privacy policy does not mention it. Because LinkedIn knows each user’s real name, employer, and job title, it is not searching anonymous visitors. It is searching identified people at identified companies. Millions of companies. Every day. All over the world.

Microsoft is running one of the largest corporate espionage operations in modern history. Every time any of LinkedIn’s one billion users visits linkedin.com, hidden code searches their computer for installed software, collects the results, and transmits them to LinkedIn’s servers and to third-party companies including an American-Israeli cybersecurity firm.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47613981

  • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    1 day ago

    I use waterfox with all of the privacy and security settings enabled to the max, plus a few extensions like ublock origin, decentraleyes, consent-o-matic, and clearurls.

    Not that many sites break. And the ones that do, I don’t visit. If you don’t need to offer an https option, or you don’t work without trackers, I don’t need to go to your site. Simple as that.