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Show HN: A LinkedIn Browser Gate Blocker
(github.com)
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2 points
by xaskasdf
74 days ago
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Hi, I read the news here about LinkedIn accessing and collecting unauthorized data from users computers https://browsergate.eu/ and I'm kinda worried about digital identification, besides, Microsoft has a extensive questionable behaviour towards their users and their privacy, also because of their government involvement. Said this, here are a bunch of extensions that blocks and spams the page spyware behaviour. Hope this helps other worried users around |
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Microsoft has of course a legitimate interest in protecting the integrity of their IT infrastructure and their users from malicious actors. No one disputes this.
The answer to that challenge is the creation of a marketplace and not the illegal and potentially criminal surveillance of their users devices. Every other platform on the planet has an app store for that reason.
The big picture here is that Microsoft is making $1b with Sales Navigator. A product no one would really pay for if they knew that there are legal alternatives.
Linkedin is not protecting their servers or their users - they are protecting a legally questionable monopoly that Microsoft created.