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Ben Ramsey
@Ben Ramsey

Coder, Author, & Speaker. PHP 8.1 & 8.2 RM. ramsey/uuid. Open Source. Staff+ Engineer. he/him

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LisPi · 3w
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The story here focuses on LinkedIn, who should definitely be held accountable for what they’re doing with our data, but the real question is “Why does Chromium allow this?”

If Chromium allows this, then anyone—not just LinkedIn—can do this.

Most certainly, Google already knows all of this if you use Chromium. Meta probably does this. I’m sure others do, too.

BeyondMachines :verified: @BeyondMachines :verified: · 8w
LinkedIn Is Quietly Scanning Your Browser Every Time You Visit Research published on browsergate.eu reports that LinkedIn silently scans visitors' Chromium-based browsers for over 6,000 installed extensions, revealing indicators of sensitive personal data like religion, health, Show more
Chuck · 12w
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Before AI, I felt like I could review PRs and, based on whose code I was reviewing, I could be more trusting and casual with my review, since I knew they usually wrote good code and paid attention to details. Now, with AI, no one pays attention to details, so I have to deeply scrutinize every PR, which takes twice or 3x the effort.

AI agents almost always add things that aren’t necessary, or they follow anti-patterns based on the surrounding legacy code context.
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ben · 12w
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