LinkedIn scans for over 200 products that directly compete with its own sales tools, including Apollo, Lusha, and ZoomInfo. Because LinkedIn knows each user’s employer, it can map which companies use which competitor products. It is extracting the customer lists of thousands of software companies from their users’ browsers without anyone’s knowledge.

And more things:

• Linkedin published one API to the European Commission as compliance. These APIs handle approximately 0.07 calls per second. Meanwhile, another internal API called Voyager handles 163 000 calls per second. In Microsoft’s 249-page compliance report to the EU, the word “API” appears 533 times. “Voyager” appears zero times.
• At the same time, LinkedIn expanded its surveillance of the exact tools the regulation was designed to protect. The scan list grew from roughly 461 products in 2024 to over 6,000 by February 2026. The EU told LinkedIn to let third-party tools in. LinkedIn built a surveillance system to find and punish every user of those tools.
• LinkedIn loads an invisible tracking element from HUMAN Security (formerly PerimeterX), an American-Israeli cybersecurity firm, zero pixels wide, hidden off-screen, that sets cookies on your browser without your knowledge. A separate fingerprinting script runs from LinkedIn’s own servers. A third script from Google executes silently on every page load. All of it encrypted. None of it disclosed.

Un peu plus de détail sur ce projet dans le billet Ponos, Un forum du 5 février 2026

Il est simplement temps de se refaire un CV sur d’autres réseaux et il y en a masse (Xing, Behance, meetup, Indeed, …).

Comme d'habitude, l'argument avancé pour l'utilisation par défaut des données est l'intérêt légitime.

Je n'ai pas plus de 5 mails dans mon Inbox.

les mails à converver parce que devis de travaux, etc...reste.

Tout

Une parodie

C'est toujours compliqué de détecter les messages générés par IA, mais il y a ici une tendance: les messages générés augmentent.

A professional network that shares incorrect, incomplete, outdated or false information...

At the same time sharing false information is an infringement of the end-user license agreement