CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@imbl
the vibes of the words suggest fire to me, but the etymology makes me think lightning

@imbl
what would the elemental affinity be?

the domain isn't even registered

how is there no instance called lemon.party

@wohali and turkeyburgers!

@Sobex
afaik, this attack only works on chromium browsers

@b yeah - I looked into who is bringing the lawsuit and it's... a LinkedIn addon maker for automation/scraping/LLM stuff called TeamFluence,

and the github repo with the .claude in it is built by a guy who is an ex-Twitter employee that now does entrepreneur/startup stuff and is an active LLM booster

also, the footer mentions "fairlinked.eu", which smells similarly fishy. if it's the same company as fairlinked.org (which, I think it is but haven't proved yet) then they're definitely purveyors of LLM stuff

@moses_izumi @rysiek
huh? he was referring to my link to the 2017 repo, not the stuff from kopper

sorry for the edit notif spam - I was trying to find the oldest example of this being talked about and it was a bit difficult to find something solid

since that browsergate site about LinkedIn seems to be gaining traction I figure I should mention:

• yes, LinkedIn does do what's being claimed (though, it's that it probes for specific extensions you're running, using features in chrome's API - it doesn't "search your computer")
• it does seem to have been doing this since at least as far back as 2017, and there has been intermittent reporting on it over the years
• I'm fairly confident the copy on the site was generated by (or at least went through) an LLM, so idk that this site is the best way to spread the issue around

edit: and as someone else noted in the replies, looking through the list of extensions of scans for... they're pretty much all "AI"/scraper/automation plugins. so, should LinkedIn be doing this, or even able to do this in Chrome? no! but also, it does seem like the stuff they're scanning for is all extensions that shouldn't exist to begin with tbh

@rowan.monster @YKantRachelRead
good job Rowan, the perfect compliment trap

@alice

a fair bit of the advice in here seems really good, but from what I know, AdNauseam isn't really worth using over just uBO

at least as of when I last looked into it a couple years ago: it uses more resources on your machine, doesn't really make any significant difference for the companies, and the high volume of "clicks" from you just makes you far more trackable since no normal person browsing would do so

also, I think it might be worth editing the last point to say "hopefully none of you are using LLMs, but if you're someone who does..." 🩵

"elle didn't you just make a post about being normal?"

yeah, transitive property - I'm normal and therefore this post is too. that's how it works

@evelynf
this is so cursed, what have I done to deserve this

*checks back to my op* oh I see, right, fair

why have a trad wife when you can have a chad wife