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> The last straw was the one where they requested your email login details That last straw has been active for probably as long as they existed. I didn't fall
by a3n 11y ago
> The last straw was the one where they requested your email login details
That last straw has been active for probably as long as they existed. I didn't fall for it, but a lot of people who know me did, and I used to get a lot of linkedin spam because of it. Either they've refined their practices, or people have wised up, or we've passed peak LinkedIn.
In any case, I ignore most email from LinkedIn, I don't play the endorsement game in either direction, and anyone who receives spam from LinkedIn related to me are themselves LinkedIn products, so they made the choice.
I've figured out how to exist peacefully with them, and other than this thread it doesn't take any time out of my day. :)
- harkyns_castle 11y agoMost sensible companies ignore LinkedIn now from what I've gathered/listened to, although it has been a while. Still quite a strong, what I would call, "shill" force out there though.
- ryan-c 11y agoSomething like half of the recruiter emails I've been getting lately have been to the email address I have posted on github. One of them actually appeared to have scraped my commit history which was mildly creepy.
- a3n 11y agoWas it a scrape for technical evaluation, or to find other committers? It seems that if two people communicate on the internet, a third person will be interested in it.
- ryan-c 11y agoI have no idea what they were doing to get the email addresses, I just know that I got an email that had all (three) of the email addresses I'd ever used in github commits in the 'To' line. As far as recruiter emails go, it was not very good. Just a generic "we are hiring developers".