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LinkedIn Is Illegally Searching Your Computer
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this post was submitted on 02 Apr 2026
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illegally searching the browser extensions and anything it can find from the browser sandbox. Very different than 'Searching your Computer'
This is definitely still bad though. Do we know they aren't using zero-days and such to attempt gaining access to more?
I hope they do. Hard to imagine a more ethical use for browser 0days than messing with LinkedIn users.
hey i resent that.
I need it coz i'm passionate about not starving and it's the de facto job board in my field
But you run an ad blocker I'm sure
i mean wouldn't it just block the whole thing?
no it doesn't. you should run an ad blocker.
Yeah for I moment I thought LinkedIn was burning some browser sandbox 0day on this.
Extensions exist on my computer and this is searching my computer for them. The title is technically correct by definition.
Title is blantently misleading.
If it's:
It's an illegal search of my computer. The title is correct. That you don't feel as strongly about software liberty and allow definitions to erode over time is your problem.
Sorry, I didn't realize that misleading clickbait post titles was a key cornerstone of software liberty.
Enforcing definitions is part of software liberty. Look at free software vs open source as a very real, very widely impacting example. There’s nothing misleading about the title on a factual basis. If you can’t see that yet I hope one day you will and look back on this comment in a different light.
You honestly think one day I'm going to wake up and think "LinkedIn's website is searching chrome for extensions" is too precise and factual, the right thing to do was to use a headline that would obviously imply to the average person (including average tech user and average free software advocate) that LinkedIn (the website? App? Windows 11 component? Who knows?) was scanning your whole hard drive!
uhhh i mean yeah its on your computer but its within the browser sandbox
Your computer is technically inside your house. Would you title this “Linkedin Is Illegally Searching Your House”?