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LinkedIn at one point were continually pressuring people into handing over their email credentials in the name of making it easy to find your contacts. So yeah

• dewey 1y ago
  They (and the users) have a very real use case for that, just like a contacts app needs all of that. The problem is not keeping it safe.
  • rpigab 1y ago
    No user ever had a real use case for seeing a button that says "invite X" that doesn't send an invite on the platform, but instead sends an email to X who doesn't have a Linkedin account. And if you decline, it asks you again. Two times using different wording.
    • dewey 1y ago
      You'll be surprised how many features "tech" people think nobody uses (Like a share button on a website), are actually very popular. That's likely the reason that feature still exists as everything is most likely A/B tested to death. I was not only talking about that though, but also that they can build shadow profiles and recommend people to you that way.