Post #910285

2026-04-03 17:41 UTC

ok, quick follow-up screenshots to show that: Those behind browsergate.eu and fairlinked.eu are in fact the same people behind "Teamfluence", the scraper/automation/etc addon company listed as bringing the lawsuit against LinkedIn Teamfluence was also the company mentioned and (poorly) redacted in the legal docs browsergate.eu offers up the LinkedIn employee's So basically, Teamfluence was scraping data from LinkedIn, got blocked for it, and now are trying to get this trumped-up campaign going to [checks notes] try to be able to automate scraping vacuuming up peoples' LinkedIn data again. I'm no fan of Microsoft or LinkedIn, but the purpose of their detection methods here seem to be preventing addons like Teamfluence which harm both them and LinkedIn's users (note: I was drafting this last night, but was looking for more info still - credit to William O'Connell on bsky for discovering and posting the screenshot of the court document that is now the 4th screenshot in this post)

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@apicultor@hachyderm.io 2026-04-03 17:47

@vantiss If LinkedIn is doing what is claimed, who's blowing the whistle is irrelevant; it's despicable and needs to be called out. And it sure looks like they are indeed doing as was claimed.

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@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz 2026-04-03 17:51

@vantiss Aaah thank you for this. Makes sense of their dramatic tone.

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@kevingranade@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-04-03 18:05

@vantiss yea this is very much in the "the worst people you know are fighting" genre. Pretty much everyone with a Really Big Web Presence does some kind of fingerprinting to try and at lest detect bot/scraping activity, and then the devil is in the details of how they do it and what they do in response. "you need to treat scrapers fairly" is a REALLY HARD argument to make.

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@StaceyCornelius@zeroes.ca 2026-04-03 19:57

@vantiss Thank you for shining a light on this. I saw a bunch of browsergate posts and thought something was off; poking around to figure out what was really happening didn't clarify a whole lot. smh

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@6b6279@freiburg.social 2026-04-04 06:08

@vantiss Bottom line seems to be: Don’t use LinkedIn. And use Anubis. Don’t give AI suckups a single bite.

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@Peetz0r@hsnl.social 2026-04-04 11:11

@vantiss So, an enemy of an enemy is sometimes just another enemy. I'm not sure what to think. Glad I stopped taking LinkedIn seriously a very long time ago, I guess.

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