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Sleazy things in the past? In the past as in last month, when I got one yet ANOTHER of those endless "I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedI
by fattire 10y ago
Sleazy things in the past?
In the past as in last month, when I got one yet ANOTHER of those endless "I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn" spams?
As in last year, when LinkedIn's site was hacked and 6.5 million passwords dropped on the Internet, yet according to Vice, "LinkedIn never clarified how many users were affected by that breach" (turns out, about 18 times the reported number)
https://motherboard.vice.com/read/another-day-another-hack-117-million-linkedin-emails-and-password https://motherboard.vice.com/read/another-day-another-hack-1...
Or do you mean the last few years, as when LinkedIn paid a (paltry) $13 million to settle a lawsuit claiming they damaged people's reputations from their irritating emails and deceptive practices?
http://time.com/4062519/linkedn-spam-settlement/ http://time.com/4062519/linkedn-spam-settlement/
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/technology-science/technology/linkedin-been-spamming-people-now-6590912 http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/technology-science/technology/l...
Do you really think all of LinkedIn's members were fully aware their contact list was being harvested and had knowledge and consented to that list being used for spamming? Clearly not.
IMO, LinkedIn's only positive contribution to the world is making it easier to spy on spies: https://icwatch.transparencytoolkit.org/ https://icwatch.transparencytoolkit.org/
- thewhitetulip 10y agoFor some reason Linkedin spams me a little less, or maybe the reason is that I unsubscribed from their spam, although I don't remember the last time I logged into linkedin