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Re:LinkedIn Is Illegally Searching Your Computer by oelmgren on Thursday April 02, 2026 @12:45PM (#47616842)
Is there evidence that they use that information for anything other than browser fingerprinting or fraud detection?

That seems like the most obvious use case? Or maybe I missed something in the write up.

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Re:LinkedIn Is Illegally Searching Your Computer by kibwen on Thursday April 02, 2026 @12:50PM (#47616905)
We can hypothesize that there may exist some for-profit companies that deserve the benefit of the doubt. Microsoft is not one of them.
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