> I’ve come to mostly expect this behavior from most websites that run advertising code and this is why I run ad blockers.

Expecting and accepting this kind of thing is why everyone feels the need to run an ad-blocker.

An ad-blocker also isn’t full protection. It’s a cat and mouse game. Novel ideas on how to extract information about you, and influence behavior, will never be handled by ad-blockers until it becomes known. And even then, it’s a question of if it’s worth the dev time for the maker of the ad-blocker you happen to be using and if that filter list gets enabled… and how much of the web enabling it breaks.

To be clear, expecting != accepting.

The point was more that the headline frames this as some major revelation about LinkedIn, while the reality is that we’re getting probed and profiled by far more sites than most people realize.

LinkedIn's whole business model is gatekeeping their database.

They're scanning your extensions to make sure you aren't using third party tools to scrape LinkedIn.

It's stupid, but they're trying to stop people from making money on LinkedIn when they feel like they're the only ones that should be able to do that.

Regulation is also a cat-and-mouse game. Life is a cat-and-mouse game.