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.
The address bar you have is set to a search engine such as google or duckduckgo, its those search engines that will auto fill as you type, if you don’t have it in your browser history.
It’s that why it keeps auto-filling the address bar as LinkedIn as soon as i type an L, even though I’ve never been to LinkedIn in my life?
The address bar you have is set to a search engine such as google or duckduckgo, its those search engines that will auto fill as you type, if you don’t have it in your browser history.