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>LinkedIn No! Vendor lock-in Horrible privacy track record "Dark-patterns"/manipulation before it was even popular Absolutely not.
by swiley 5y ago
>LinkedIn
No!
Vendor lock-in
Horrible privacy track record
"Dark-patterns"/manipulation before it was even popular
Absolutely not.
- rendall 5y agoAgreed. Remember the dark pattern of "To which of these Google contacts would you like us to send an invite?" Then they would show a list of what was apparently about 10 people, prechecked, and you would uncheck the ones you did not want to include. But hidden below the fold, this list was actually all of your Google contacts. Selecting send would blast your entire contact list. Including exes, their exes, people with whom one might be in a legal dispute, mistaken emails, people you had to fire, or got fired by. A goddamned disaster, that was. To this day I open LinkedIn only in its own sandboxed browser.
- laurent92 5y agoAnd if you had been on the receiving end: It would prompt you dozens of times, every month if necessary, if you didn’t open a LinkedIn account with the same email address as your high school janitor used when she invited you. To this day I still have the automated rule that classifies LinkedIn email as spam. Their spam score must be the highest of the world.