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I advertise a lot on LinkedIn- they aren’t selling your email address (at least not that I’ve seen). It wouldn’t be in their financial interest to do so. Their
by wjossey 7y ago
I advertise a lot on LinkedIn- they aren’t selling your email address (at least not that I’ve seen).
It wouldn’t be in their financial interest to do so. Their goal is to get you to do outreach on their platform, which requires use of credits (which aren’t cheap). Giving away emails would undercut their entire business model.
So, safe to say it’s some other way they are getting your address.
- notahacker 7y ago> Giving away emails would undercut their entire business model. And selling them without permission would also probably land them the largest fine in the history of data protection law. 'I saw you on LinkedIn' is a decent intro for a spammer even if it isn't true, and a lot of email addresses are linkable to LinkedIn profiles vs email harvesting tools, including both emails you've actually put on LinkedIn and emails elsewhere on the internet or in easily-guessable firstname.lastname@company.com formats.
- wjossey 7y agoThere are now a ton of websites where you can buy email addresses, like hunter.io (and many others). Getting emails isn’t all that challenging these days.
- mcintyre1994 7y agoIs it really not free to do outreach to candidates on LinkedIn? I figured it was free and it was only the weird featured/highlighted messages people were paying for, because for paid outreach the quality of what I get sent is mostly really poor and very rarely seems targeted at all.
- wjossey 7y agoCorrect. Not free. Quite expensive actually. If they reach out to you directly it’s costing them likely a few dollars per message.