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pier25today at 1:48 PM1 replyview on HN

I alway use LinkedIn and Meta websites in a different browser altogether.

I hope browsers in the future will need to ask for permission before doing any of that.


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dt3fttoday at 1:56 PM

If you use both from the same IP without using a VPN… the profiles are most certainly grouped. There are commercial datasets on IP addresses with almost 100% accuracy with tags like “school”, “house”, “apartment block” etc. Furthermore, if you ever logged into both sites from within the same browser by accident, the link by fingerprinting was made right there and then. The final profile on you may not be 100% accurate, but certainly is in the 98% range.

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