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.
      • git [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
        14·
        19 天前

        If it’s:

        • On my computer, and
        • You’re trying to discover it, and
        • I didn’t grant permission

        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.

          • git [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
            2·
            19 天前

            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.

            • Tabitha ☢️[she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
              1·
              19 天前

              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!