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This addresses the two greatest threats to their business model: - users associating spam received to their use of LinkedIn - undermining the value of LinkedI
by ballenf 7y ago
This addresses the two greatest threats to their business model:
- users associating spam received to their use of LinkedIn
- undermining the value of LinkedIn paid services
I'm more upset at browser vendors for creating such an obvious security/privacy hole than at LinkedIn for using it. And now Chrome will use this as subterfuge for nerfing adblock. This is why we can't have nice things.
- icebraining 7y agoHow are browsers supposed to prevent the page from detecting that an extension changed the page's DOM, or that the extension explicitly made URLs accessible to it? As the author points out, there are mechanisms for showing extension UIs that don't rely on DOM manipulation.