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Seeing the mob mentality surrounding this is honestly scary. All the top voted comments have pretty much decided that this is used for nefarious purposes, with

Seeing the mob mentality surrounding this is honestly scary. All the top voted comments have pretty much decided that this is used for nefarious purposes, with absolutely zero evidence. Same goes for TikTok and the DDG favicon saga from yesterday. Whatever happened to Occam’s (edit: Meant Hanlon's) razor?

unionpivo 6y ago
> Whatever happened to Occam’s razor? The reaction from people in this thread is the result of occam's razor. If site is caught doing shady things repeatedly over the years and then another shady thing is revealed. Most likely/simple explanation is that they are doing jet another shady thing. Same goes for TikTok and Zoom for me. Not sure what DDG saga you mean, i must have missed that.
- McDev 6y ago
  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23708166 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23708166
  - Lio 6y ago
    LinkedIn's business model is base around surveillance. DDG's is specifically based around providing services without surveillance. So if DDG make a mistake I give them the benefit of the doubt because I can see it's in the their interests to fix that. If LinkedIn make a mistake, based on previous behaviour, I assume that the mistake was getting caught and that another mistake will be announced any time now. I don't use LinkedIn for this reason.
leokennis 6y ago
Eh. It’s like I already punched you in the face 9 times. The 10th time I’m making a punching motion, you’re probably going to duck away. Even if I wasn’t going to punch you, but instead giving you an ice cream. If you’re a shitty company (TikTok, LinkedIn) people are going to assume you’re acting shitty when it looks like you’re acting shitty.
- GordonS 6y ago
  Yeah, it's like The Boy that Cried Wolf - sure, people shouldn't jump to conclusions, but if we're shown something enough times it's easy to become conditioned to a particular expectation.
gpvos 6y ago
Linkedin has been doing lots of bad things before, like asking for users' email passwords. Occam's razor applies, and it's to Linkedin's disadvantage. By the way, maybe you mean Hanlon's razor (never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity).
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nottorp 6y ago
I uninstalled the Linkedin app like 30 minutes after first trying it a couple years ago because it was bombarding me with useless notifications. Then on the Microsoft purchase they redid their site in some crap javascript framework that keeps reloading elements and is 3x as slow as the previous version of the site. I didn't even assume malice when i read the article title, i assumed incompetence.

unionpivo 6y ago

> Whatever happened to Occam’s razor? The reaction from people in this thread is the result of occam's razor. If site is caught doing shady things repeatedly over the years and then another shady thing is revealed. Most likely/simple explanation is that they are doing jet another shady thing. Same goes for TikTok and Zoom for me. Not sure what DDG saga you mean, i must have missed that.

McDev 6y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23708166 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23708166
- Lio 6y ago
  LinkedIn's business model is base around surveillance. DDG's is specifically based around providing services without surveillance. So if DDG make a mistake I give them the benefit of the doubt because I can see it's in the their interests to fix that. If LinkedIn make a mistake, based on previous behaviour, I assume that the mistake was getting caught and that another mistake will be announced any time now. I don't use LinkedIn for this reason.

leokennis 6y ago

Eh. It’s like I already punched you in the face 9 times. The 10th time I’m making a punching motion, you’re probably going to duck away. Even if I wasn’t going to punch you, but instead giving you an ice cream. If you’re a shitty company (TikTok, LinkedIn) people are going to assume you’re acting shitty when it looks like you’re acting shitty.

GordonS 6y ago
Yeah, it's like The Boy that Cried Wolf - sure, people shouldn't jump to conclusions, but if we're shown something enough times it's easy to become conditioned to a particular expectation.

gpvos 6y ago

Linkedin has been doing lots of bad things before, like asking for users' email passwords. Occam's razor applies, and it's to Linkedin's disadvantage. By the way, maybe you mean Hanlon's razor (never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity).

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nottorp 6y ago

I uninstalled the Linkedin app like 30 minutes after first trying it a couple years ago because it was bombarding me with useless notifications. Then on the Microsoft purchase they redid their site in some crap javascript framework that keeps reloading elements and is 3x as slow as the previous version of the site. I didn't even assume malice when i read the article title, i assumed incompetence.