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LinkedIn Is Illegally Searching Your Computer (browsergate.eu)
submitted 20 hours ago by themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47613981

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[–] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 4 hours ago

False. Browsers can announce themselves as desktop or mobile, or even advertise pre-determined fake window and screen sizes for this purpose (in Firefox it's called "letterboxed" in the hidden settings). There is no need for a server to have any of this information anyway - either the design of the webpage should be responsive by default, or the server can send specifically whichever files for styles the browser specifically asks for, perhaps falling back to a "all.css" or something.