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Seriously: How do we know that these spammers who're using Wickr aren't directly paying LinkedIn and are being protected by LinkedIn? People used to say I was
by johnklos 4y ago
Seriously: How do we know that these spammers who're using Wickr aren't directly paying LinkedIn and are being protected by LinkedIn?
People used to say I was nuts when I said LinkedIn outright make things up, that they try to track much more than they rightly ever should, and that they were doing nefarious things with the data they collect, but of course now we all know that was true. We don't even know the true extent of their fabrications.
Could LinkedIn be doing whatever it takes to make some extra money? It would neither be surprising nor unexpected in the least.
- nullc 4y agoWhy assume it's linkedin official policy rather than some rogue linkedin employees making money on the side?
- wmeredith 4y agoBecause they've had official policy that was user-hostile in the past. For example: scraping user address books and sending all their contacts LinkedIn spam without asking permission.
- qaisjp 4y agoDidn't most things do that back in the day? LinkedIn (owned by Microsoft!) supporting drug spam sounds ludicrous.