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Easier pro-tip - on your LinkedIn profile, spell your employers name in an odd way - an uncommon misspelling or punctation in strange places. Catch all the Lin
by chevman 4y ago
Easier pro-tip - on your LinkedIn profile, spell your employers name in an odd way - an uncommon misspelling or punctation in strange places.
Catch all the LinkedIn scraper spammers this way since 2010, yo!
No AI needed, lol.
- mkoryak 4y agoFinally some explains why I see so many "full sack programmers" on there!
- jhugo 4y agoHere was me thinking that was just another way to say brogrammer.
- para_parolu 4y agoEmoji in name works in many cases as well
- justinlloyd 4y agoI always put "stealth start-up" as whatever company I am currently at for historical reasons I won't cover here. But listed my current company as "stealth start-up" is an automatic filter for spam & bots. "Hey Justin, love what you're doing at Stealth start-up..." or "We were looking through Stealth Start-up's web site and noticed..." or "Your work at Stealth Start-up has been amazing, would you be open..." Let's me roundfile an awful lot of dross really fast.
- BeefWellington 4y agoI've done similar using homoglyphs. It's surprising how much crap you can cut down on even when you explicitly turn off all e-mails from a service.
- yakshaving_jgt 4y agoWe’re doing something similar, and we get a bunch of “We love what you’re doing at ${company_name} | The ${industry} Platform!”
- Tangurena2 4y agoAlso there are things like "your colleagues at Stealth StartUp spoke highly about you" that show up in my inbox. There are no colleagues at a one-person start up.
- cyclotron3k 4y agoEven easier pro-tip: just don't have a linked in profile
- collin128 4y agoCan confirm, we have "(official page)" appended to our LinkedIn company name.
- snickerbockers 4y agoi found an even more effective method, which is to delete my profile. In seven years if using that site i never got a single meaningful interview from somebody who contacted me on linkedin.. every time i go to a job interview with somebody who found me on linked in, they end up telling me during the interview that they don't think i come from the right background for this position despite the fact that they are the ones who contacted me. It did however lead to one fairly entertaining interview at a large well-known company that makes virtualization software in which the person interviewing me didn't believe me when i told him that the realloc function exists.
- ornornor 4y agoMy first name is “<my first name> <a random emoji>” Anytime I get a “Hi <first name, emoji>” message, I know it is from a ~~spam bot~~recruiter and ignore.
- jrimbault 4y agoWhat I do/used to do is to replace the 'a' in my firstname with the cyrillic 'а'. And then I have a short JS snippet to highlight every div with that char. It's invisible but it does have the "downside" that I no longer appear in search results when searching my firstname.