Are we surprised? Of course depends on the browser and they're looking mostly for extensions. Clearly they try hard to map what people use, it's corporate espionage.

Could it get more intrusive than this? It's really handing over sensitive data to shady companies...

Kind of unsurprising right? I mean LinkedIn is clearly a deformed version of reality where people write like corporate drones most of the time. It was only a matter of time until robot generated content would be prevalent there, it's just harder to spot since even humans aren't behaving genuinely there.

Interesting framework. I wouldn't take everything at face value, but this looks like a good source of inspiration to design your own.

I'm on that social media for work reason, still oh boy... how much I hate it. This article pretty much summarizes why.