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I don't love LinkedIn, but there really isn't any other platform where to keep professional contacts at the moment (at the same level or close). I get their s

by l0c0b0x 13y ago

I don't love LinkedIn, but there really isn't any other platform where to keep professional contacts at the moment (at the same level or close). I get their spam from time to time (join groups, free pro-membership for a month) but not a lot of recruiters, which is great.. and I have a lot of professional contacts. I'm wondering if you might be overlooking the connection gains to bad wording in LinkedIn's part. "Give us your password, it's secure" is pretty dumb language if you tell me. My understanding is that they supply you with the ability to use 3rd party APIs to gather your email contacts from various sources. That is not really giving your password to them -per say-.

dripton 13y ago
No, there was a password input box. Definitely giving them my password per se. (Someone else noted that Gmail has a contacts API, so if you use Gmail then they can harvest your contacts without actually getting your password. Which is much better, though still kind of rude to your friends.)