#LinkedIn's tracking is wild.
Signing up for an account in a private Firefox window with adblock and privacy badger: It already shows my family as people I might know.
Signing up for an account in Mullvad browser with VPN active: It doesn't know.
Signing up in Mullvad browser without VPN: It also doesn't know.
So basically it has fingerprinted my Firefox browser so well that it knows it's me before I'm signed in.
Awful, terrible, scary, corrupt website. They don't even try to hide it.
Thomas Frans 🇺🇦
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2026-07-26 11:20:08 UTC
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2026-07-26 11:20:08 UTCEvent JSON
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