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Why no mobile app?

• dade_ 8y ago
  Another comment spelled it out: LinkedIn's mobile app has several dark patterns, but the worst is the one that spams everyone in your Gmail. This is particularly a problem for Gmail because it makes a contact for everyone you ever emailed, so this includes personal relationships and it is a mortifying professional embarrassment. Over a dozen people I know have been fooled by it over the years. Then there is the data collection, but my phone is used for work and personal. All of the data they collect and analysis of that data is up for sale. No thank you.
  • abledon 8y ago
    Wouldn’t it have to ask permission to access that data on installation though?
    • dade_ 8y ago
      It does ask permission to access your contacts, but it doesn't say, "then, at some point in the future we will pop an unfamiliar screen in our mobile app that is deliberately designed to confuse you into agreeing to send an invitation to all of your email contacts, multiple times." https://www.engadget.com/2014/06/13/linkedin-lawsuit-email-contacts/ https://www.engadget.com/2014/06/13/linkedin-lawsuit-email-c...
• dorfsmay 8y ago
  A better question is what value (to you, not to LinkedIn!) does the linked mobile apps has that the browser interface doesn't have?