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"A [recruiter you connected with 3 years ago in hopes of getting job opportunities, but never heard from ever again] reacted to a post by [a person you've never heard of before]: What taking a long shit while my wife was screaming at my kids taught me about b2b sales.

Click here to read more"

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spenvo

39 minutes ago

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Good luck actually unsubscribing from LinkedIn emails. The dark pattern they employ (or at least used to employ, for many many years) is to just periodically add new "categories" of email to send you, that you haven't yet unsubscribed from. Back in ~2015, out of frustration I changed my LinkedIn email to a throwaway, as that was the only way around the issue I could find.

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Zenul_Abidin

34 minutes ago

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I unsubscribed from LinkedIn emails but they still send me emails of people I should connect with.

Now debating whether I should delete it altogether.

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atraac

27 minutes ago

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While I also dislike LinkedIn a lot, I unsubscribed once in the past and I haven't received a single email like that in years.

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nickdothutton

1 hour ago

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I really wish LinkedIn would collapse and close so that something useful could take its place. At the moment I feel like it's squatting the "business networking" square on the board, but I don't know what it would take to dislodge it. I wrote a little about this on my blog about a decade ago and I don't feel we are any closer to it being dislodged.

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mawadev

22 minutes ago

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Linkedin is a site where LLMs talk to each other

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pugio

53 minutes ago

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LinkedIn is one of the most annoying sites on the internet. Every time I mistakenly click a link, it automatically grabs my Google account and creates a new account and profile for me, which I then have to go in and delete. Yes, I finally figured out which arcane preferences settings across both LinkedIn and Google I had to tweak to stop this from happening, but I think it was only after ChatGPT was around to help me wade through the mess.

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technion

14 seconds ago

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This isn't LinkedIn specific - the easily misclickable "one click to logon with Google" button showing up in browsers was a huge mistake and should never have existed. Reddit has started prompting too if you're not currently logged in, to just suddenly be logged in with Google.

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dlcarrier

31 minutes ago

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If you use Chrome, or many of its derivatives, you can log into the web browser itself, and many people don't even know they are doing so. It can leak a lot of data, more so if you use the 'sign in with…' feature on many web pages. On a phone, if you're logged into the phone OS you're logged into the included web browser, and an aftermarket web browser may still leak information from your phone login.

I don't log my phone OS or web browser into any accounts, so I don't have to worry about LinkedIn making fake profile pages, but Cloudflare pretty much always assumes I'm a bot, so there's a bit of a downside. Honestly, I'm probably better off not visiting most of the web pages it blocks me from.

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realty_geek

16 minutes ago

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Sorry, I don't understand.

Somehow linkedin creates a new account (on linkedin? - so a brand new account?) without your agreement?

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ivolimmen

10 minutes ago

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I left the site over a month ago, I closed my account. I only receive weird emails from recruiters from it.

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Surac

14 minutes ago

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Posts on linked in are 99% scam ans 1% finding out all is scam

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gehsty

7 minutes ago

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I find AI has destroyed it, even the posts by people should know better post fully ai written posts (Major renewable CEOs posting AI slop is very sad).

I block the feed and just use for messages and notifications. LinkedIn is a platform that I’ve had multiple job opportunities come through, shame to see it go into slop meltdown.

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ta8903

40 minutes ago

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It works fine as a containment site.

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steve1977

5 minutes ago

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I sometimes check if someone is active on LinkedIn or not (as in, actually posting stuff). This is useful as a filter.

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d3Xt3r

2 hours ago

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I mean, LinkedIn themselves were pretty shady before the Microsoft acquisition - multiple privacy violations, email spam, even had a class action lawsuit against them. Microsoft never cared.

And anyone who set up a LinkedIn account knowing all this don't care either. I look at people who're still on LinkedIn the same way as people who're still on Facebook. They don't have my sympathies.

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smackeyacky

1 hour ago

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My account is only there so nobody is tempted to squat there on my behalf. Perhaps a minor issue overall but worth considering

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lbpdev

1 hour ago

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Fair, I guess. So what's a safe site for candidates to find jobs? Indeed isn't much better.

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orionblastar

2 hours ago

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There is also a Minecraft scam where the scammer takes over the Microsoft account. https://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/1puiae0/scammers...