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Just a PSA. I see it's been posted before but I think it deserves some more eyballs.

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. This is illegal and potentially a criminal offense in every jurisdiction we have examined.

Executive summary: https://browsergate.eu/executive-summary/

Just a PSA. I see it's been posted before but I think it deserves some more eyballs. >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. This is illegal and potentially a criminal offense in every jurisdiction we have examined. Executive summary: https://browsergate.eu/executive-summary/
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They can only scan for extensions this way in Chromium based browsers. Firefox and derivatives don’t don’t let them do this.

They also use a standard tool for de‐anonymizing browsers. There is an online tool (coveryourtracks.eff.org) that shows you how vulnerable you are to most of those and exactly what makes you the most identifiable.

I would be surprised if LinkedIn built and maintained this extension tracker on their own. Every site using one of those de‐anonymizers would probably like to gather this information. It’s probably out there on other websites.