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LinkedIn Is Illegally Searching Your Computer (browsergate.eu)
submitted 2 weeks ago by floofloof@lemmy.ca to c/privacy@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/1024319

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[–] StealthLizardDrop@piefed.social 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

laughs in linux

[–] solrize@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

People run Chrome on Linux.

[–] StealthLizardDrop@piefed.social 2 points 2 weeks ago

So this is a more in depth explanation of what it actually does. In the end it only searches a specific number of extensions from chrome extension store, encrypts it and sends it off to 3rd party.

https://browsergate.eu/how-it-works/

But i also don't use chrome based browser and don't visit LinkedIn. Il live

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 1 points 2 weeks ago

Installed software! Oh installed software! Where are you! LOL! This guy is using scripts he wrote himself and the combination number #24356357954689 of possible software, desktop GUI and kernel. Okay let's drive our malicious scan!.... Oh sudo password, we need the root password to do anything malicious! Look at this, it even has a welcome screen asking for you to scan as much as it is possible in that image! Darn!