LinkedIn Is Illegally Searching Your Computer

Re:LinkedIn Is Illegally Searching Your Computer by brokencode on Thursday April 02, 2026 @12:43PM (#47616807)

I mean yeah, you pay for the internet. But many sites are free to use only due to ads.

Such as news and magazine sites, many of which are actively dying due to a lack of revenue.

I personally wish these sites could all switch to paid models, because I also don’t like ads.

But absent that, I’d like to support the sites I use so that they don’t go out of business.

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Re:LinkedIn Is Illegally Searching Your Computer by bookofjoe on Thursday April 02, 2026 @01:43PM (#47617645)

I have expensive online subscriptions to New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post. Nevertheless they are FILLED with ads/popups/videos that run automatically/dark patterns. Just saying: there's no refuge.

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Re:LinkedIn Is Illegally Searching Your Computer by brokencode on Thursday April 02, 2026 @03:19PM (#47618950)

True, but that doesn’t invalidate what I said about the vast majority of sites that aren’t globally known, prestigious news companies that people are willing to pay an expensive subscription for.

Most publishers of content online are ad supported and struggling, and I want to make sure I’m contributing to their revenue somehow.

I don’t feel bad about blocking ads on sites I pay for though.

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Re:LinkedIn Is Illegally Searching Your Computer by fl4regun on Thursday April 02, 2026 @01:55PM (#47617835)

here's an idea: don't use those sites.

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Re:LinkedIn Is Illegally Searching Your Computer by account42 on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @04:48AM (#47672366)

If their business depends on psychologically manipulating me into acting against my own best interests then I hope they go out of business.

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