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 (DIR) Post #B4vM1BFrs8m9no1mbI by vantiss@social.treehouse.systems
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       since that browsergate site about LinkedIn seems to be gaining traction I figure I should mention:yes, LinkedIn does do what's being claimed (though, it's that it probes for specific extensions you're running, using features in chrome's API - it doesn't "search your computer")it does seem to have been doing this since at least as far back as 2017, and there has been intermittent reporting on it over the yearsI'm fairly confident the copy on the site was generated by (or at least went through) an LLM, so idk that this site is the best way to spread the issue aroundedit: and as someone else noted in the replies, looking through the list of extensions of scans for... they're pretty much all "AI"/scraper/automation plugins. so, should LinkedIn be doing this, or even able to do this in Chrome? no! but also, it does seem like the stuff they're scanning for is all extensions that shouldn't exist to begin with tbhedit 2: please see this follow-up post which proves this is just a shitty campaign by people who made an addon called "Teamfluence" that got blocked by LinkedIn
       
 (DIR) Post #B4vM1BbUZk4ass93J2 by vantiss@social.treehouse.systems
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       ok, quick follow-up screenshots to show that:Those behind browsergate.eu and fairlinked.eu are in fact the same people behind "Teamfluence", the scraper/automation/etc addon company listed as bringing the lawsuit against LinkedInTeamfluence was also the company mentioned and (poorly) redacted in the legal docs browsergate.eu offers up the LinkedIn employee'sSo basically, Teamfluence was scraping data from LinkedIn, got blocked for it, and now are trying to get this trumped-up campaign going to [checks notes] try to be able to automate scraping vacuuming up peoples' LinkedIn data again. I'm no fan of Microsoft or LinkedIn, but the purpose of their detection methods here seem to be preventing addons like Teamfluence which harm both them and LinkedIn's users(note: I was drafting this last night, but was looking for more info still - credit to William O'Connell on bsky for discovering and posting the screenshot of the court document that is now the 4th screenshot in this post)
       
 (DIR) Post #B4vM1CnE9b3QZYdwEi by vantiss@social.treehouse.systems
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       sorry for the edit notif spam - I was trying to find the oldest example of this being talked about and it was a bit difficult to find something solid