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I still use LinkedIn b/c well it's the market leader. However I do have one thing to vent about: LinkedIn uses a phishing technique after you're logged in by s

by redwood 15y ago

I still use LinkedIn b/c well it's the market leader. However I do have one thing to vent about: LinkedIn uses a phishing technique after you're logged in by showing you your email address and then a password field which makes it very easy for you to mindlessly input your email password (as they want) so they can spam all your contacts. I've been saved from this mistake many times by having different LinkedIn and Gmail passwords, but this really shouldn't be acceptable...

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jamesbritt 15y ago
I've been saved from this mistake many times by having different LinkedIn and Gmail passwords, but this really shouldn't be acceptable... But you, and others, are accepting it, so by definition it's acceptable. At what point do principles finally trump convenience?
davedx 15y ago
I deleted my LinkedIn account several months ago because the value is gave me, as a professional, did not outweigh the buggy site with its highly dubious strategies. I've received one job offer through the site in the years I've been on it, but I've also been spammed to death by emails that I couldn't turn off and had made something like a hundred connections to people that I mostly will never actually need to be 'connected' to ever again. I think there is value to be found in a professional networking / career site, but for me, LinkedIn did not cut it.
- motters 15y ago
  I'm also considering deleting my Linkedin account and just moving the same biographical info to my own web site.
cdr 15y ago
LinkedIn also uses shady-dating-site tactics. A couple of months ago I got an email from them along the lines of "We noticed you haven't logged in in awhile. You have a message waiting from someone in your extended network!". I log in, and no message - but I am presented a page prompting me to let them scrape my gmail and/or add people from a list they think I might know. I haven't used LinkedIn in a long time, and I should really attempt to delete my account.

by redwood 15y ago

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jamesbritt 15y ago

I've been saved from this mistake many times by having different LinkedIn and Gmail passwords, but this really shouldn't be acceptable... But you, and others, are accepting it, so by definition it's acceptable. At what point do principles finally trump convenience?

davedx 15y ago

I deleted my LinkedIn account several months ago because the value is gave me, as a professional, did not outweigh the buggy site with its highly dubious strategies. I've received one job offer through the site in the years I've been on it, but I've also been spammed to death by emails that I couldn't turn off and had made something like a hundred connections to people that I mostly will never actually need to be 'connected' to ever again. I think there is value to be found in a professional networking / career site, but for me, LinkedIn did not cut it.

motters 15y ago
I'm also considering deleting my Linkedin account and just moving the same biographical info to my own web site.

cdr 15y ago

LinkedIn also uses shady-dating-site tactics. A couple of months ago I got an email from them along the lines of "We noticed you haven't logged in in awhile. You have a message waiting from someone in your extended network!". I log in, and no message - but I am presented a page prompting me to let them scrape my gmail and/or add people from a list they think I might know. I haven't used LinkedIn in a long time, and I should really attempt to delete my account.