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.
They cannot do that. They do scan the browser’s extensions, but the title is very misleading.
Extensions are installed on your computer, therefore the title is true, although a bit sensationalist
for that matter they can to an extent. they could be probing ports on localhost and your network. only HTTP protocol though, but through timings they could probably differentiate between open, closed and filtered ports