Show HN: A LinkedIn Browser Gate Blocker(github.com)
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Show HN: A LinkedIn Browser Gate Blocker
https://github.com/xaskasdf/linkedin-defense
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Hi, I am the one who published the findings on browsergate.
Microsoft has of course a legitimate interest in protecting the integrity of their IT infrastructure and their users from malicious actors. No one disputes this.
The answer to that challenge is the creation of a marketplace and not the illegal and potentially criminal surveillance of their users devices. Every other platform on the planet has an app store for that reason.
The big picture here is that Microsoft is making $1b with Sales Navigator. A product no one would really pay for if they knew that there are legal alternatives.
Linkedin is not protecting their servers or their users - they are protecting a legally questionable monopoly that Microsoft created.
Microsoft has of course a legitimate interest in protecting the integrity of their IT infrastructure and their users from malicious actors. No one disputes this.
The answer to that challenge is the creation of a marketplace and not the illegal and potentially criminal surveillance of their users devices. Every other platform on the planet has an app store for that reason.
The big picture here is that Microsoft is making $1b with Sales Navigator. A product no one would really pay for if they knew that there are legal alternatives.
Linkedin is not protecting their servers or their users - they are protecting a legally questionable monopoly that Microsoft created.
Hope this helps other worried users around