Microsoft is running one of the largest corporate espionage operations in modern history. Every time any of LinkedIn’s one billion users visits linkedin.com, hidden code searches their computer for installed software, collects the results, and transmits them to LinkedIn’s servers and to third-party companies including an American-Israeli cybersecurity firm.
The user is never asked. Never told. LinkedIn’s privacy policy does not mention it.
Because LinkedIn knows each user’s real name, employer, and job title, it is not searching anonymous visitors. It is searching identified people at identified companies. Millions of companies. Every day. All over the world.
It’s pretty impossible to exist in society without a few concessions. Like doing official or work stuff requires you to use Google products.
If your work forces you to use Google, use Google for work on your work machine. Do only work on your work machine. If they want their data stolen, that’s on them.
Me: No Google at all. No Google account. Not having a problem at all. I’ve been a software developer for 23 years.
Also, you wouldn’t be using LinkedIn on a work machine. Unless you want to get fired.
Okay but not everyone is as tech savvy. I wouldn’t call everyone a moron just because they don’t have the same skillset as you.
Stop using Google. Now you have the same skill set.
They’ve spent an ungodly amount of money to make sure they have a us in a monopoly with manufactured consent at that point its no longer a personal responsibility problem.
Excuses. I don’t use them and I don’t have trouble. Stop using them.