LinkedIn will scan the browser to identify extensions

How do you know the purpose is to prevent scraping? It could be some general marketing drive or general snoop for whatever other invented privacy invasive reason.

I figured it was to help them track users.

I have a hard time calling it linkedin's data when it belongs to the users.

I may be wrong here but I assume linkedin's user's don't have a strong preference if their data is searchable by anyone or just people who pay linkedin thousands of dollars for one of their paid accounts.

Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.

They have been doing it for years.

I just interviewed with GH and they claimed MS hasn’t interfered, having learned lessons from earlier buyouts.

Sounds like it was more of a goodwill gesture to stabilize a resource important to the internet.

Tbh LinkedIn could very well have bubbled this up if their culture was untouched. Never really seemed like much more than Facebook curated for professional profile content. Pretty like minded sort of snooping, IMO.

Not saying MS isn’t interfering and GH is selling a line. Also no evidence this isn’t just LinkedIn hiring the same kind of people. They’re kind of all over.

Yes, that's what it means. They do scan when/if you visit them. I'm not a native, but "is scanning" doesn't sound right here because it means that it's happening right now. However, the title says "the browser" (i.e. the browser of whoever visits) and that is not happening right now, only when that browser does visit. So, I'd say that "is scanning" should go with "browsers" (i.e. they are scanning the browsers in general, not a specific browser).

But anyway, the sentence means what you think it should :).