The most obvious reason for this is browser fingerprinting, right? So your visits to other websites can be linked to your Linkedin identity? Or no?

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glenstein 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

They also try to profile for things like political beliefs.

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Someone 6 hours ago | parent [-]

I don’t see this article showing that. They query for extensions that could be used to do that, and that likely already is illegal, but those queries could solely be used to uniquely identify users (grabbing more bits makes it less likely to get collisions)

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hedora 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The list of queried extensions includes things that would be used by particular religious groups, and people with certain medical conditions.

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ziml77 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Those being in the list doesn't mean that's what they're looking for. Take a look at the database of extensions, there's far more extensions that don't seem limited to any particular group. The author just called those out specifically because they're perfect for implying nefarious intent.

	▲	JumpCrisscross 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> doesn't mean that's what they're looking for It does suggest that’s what they’re collecting. That is per se a violation in many jurisdictions. It should trigger investigations in most others to ensure it wasn’t mis-used.

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Someone 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The claim I replied to is “They try to profile for things like political beliefs”.

I wasn’t contesting that they query extensions that can be used for that purpose, or that they use query results for that purpose, but indicated that the fact that they make such queries doesn’t necessarily imply that they try to do such profiling.

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glenstein 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

From the "Why It's Illegal" section:

>Political opinions

>LinkedIn scans for Anti-woke (“The anti-wokeness extension. Shows warnings about woke companies”), Anti-Zionist Tag (“Adds a tag to the LinkedIn profiles of Anti-Zionists”), Vote With Your Money (“showing political contributions from executives and employees”), No more Musk (“Hides digital noise related to Elon Musk,” 19 users), Political Circus (“Politician to Clown AI Filter,” 7 users), LinkedIn Political Content Blocker, and NoPolitiLinked.

>Each of these extensions reveals a political position. If LinkedIn detects any of them, it has collected data revealing that person’s political opinions. Article 9 prohibits this.

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whimsicalism 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

no, it's about scraping.