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Let me ask. Is it also a "cool hack" when hotels inject ads into free WiFi? ... Because it is basically the same concept but worse because you just gave up the

• jmduke 13y ago
  ... Because it is basically the same concept but worse because you just gave up the privacy of your inbox to be data mined and sold. All for some minor conveniences masquerading as a "cool hack". My father's a B2B salesman who spends a lot of time using LinkedIn for lead acquisition. He's thrilled for this thing because he spends "way too much time fiddling with the iPhone browser to try and get this info." I'm not saying the underlying security issues aren't valid, but to say it's a "minor convenience" is a failure of perspective.
• girvo 13y ago
  And I dislike the basic premise of it too. But I can see a lot of other people being okay with the trade-offs needed... just like ads in my hotel WiFi. I don't get why people say it shouldn't be made... it should be made, but they should educate the users as to all of the trade-offs needed. As it stands, I think people are going to be weirded out (as we are) about LinkedIn reading your email. The regular user doesn't love them that much, I'd think, so I think it's likely Intro will fail.