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LinkedIn is SPYWARE, and you should never log in on your own machines:
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Date: April 3rd, 2026 5:43 PM Author: ,.,..,.,..,.,.,.,..,.,.,,..,..,.,,..,.,,. techlibs, why are you doing this?
https://browsergate.eu/executive-summary/
As part of the campaign in removing everyone from the market who might actually make use of the Digital Markets Act, LinkedIn started injecting malicious code into the browsers of their users, without their knowledge or their consent.
At the time of writing, this code downloads a list of 6,222 software products and brute-forces the detection of each one. The scan covers extensions with a combined user base of approximately 405 million people. 4. The Bigger Picture
Because LinkedIn knows each visitor’s name, employer, and job title, every detected extension is matched to an identified individual. And because LinkedIn knows where each user works, these individual scans aggregate into detailed profiles of companies, institutions, and government agencies, revealing which software tools their employees use without the organization’s knowledge or consent. A Massive Data Breach of Sensitive Data and Trade Secrets
The malicious JavaScript that Microsoft secretly injects into the LinkedIn website searches each user’s browser for installed software applications.
The search reveals:
Political opinions of users, through extensions like “Anti-woke,” “Anti-Zionist Tag,” and “No more Musk” Religious beliefs, through extensions like “PordaAI” (blur haram content) and “Deen Shield” (blocks haram sites) Disability and neurodivergence, through extensions like “simplify” (for neurodivergent users) Employment status, through 509 job search extensions that reveal who is looking for work on the very platform where their current employer can see their profile Trade secrets of millions of companies, by mapping which organizations use which competitor products, from Apollo to ZoomInfo
LinkedIn has not disclosed this practice in its privacy policy. There is no mention of extension scanning in any public-facing document.
list of extensions which for which linkedin scans machines that log into its site:
https://browsergate.eu/extensions/
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