LinkedIn is ignoring user settings • Hacker News Board

Re: LinkedIn is ignoring user settings

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Post by khc » Sun, Jan 14, 2018, 6:25 PM UTC

jeffmould wrote: post #88

rdlecler1 wrote: post #73

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I always but a calendar note for this exact reason, except for one time I forgot to with Slingbox. No monthly receipt and it was only after looking at my bill several months later that I realized I was being quietly charged. If I’m being billed monthly, I should have a receipt sent to me every month. Shady tactics.

Sadly, this a trend I am seeing more and more with monthly recurring subscription companies no matter their size. Even with Netflix, I don't get a monthly receipt or billing reminder. There is no excuse for not sending out a monthly reminder and/or receipt each time my credit card is charged. It's a shady tactic to reduce churn but in the end, I am sure increases chargebacks and results in increased customer complain…

If you subscribe through Google play, you get a monthly email for each subscription. At least that's how it works for me.

Re: LinkedIn is ignoring user settings

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Post by kakarot » Sun, Jan 14, 2018, 6:25 PM UTC

tomc1985 wrote: post #89

NegativeLatency wrote: post #65

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I suspect management has set some revenue goals for LinkedIn. People who would otherwise act sensibly can talk themselves into some shady stuff when there's money and career advancement at stake.

This is probably exactly what happened. I can easily imagine upper management settings unrealistic performance goals that force the minions to make dark choices...

> upper management setting unrealistic performance goals

yes

> force the minions to make dark choices

no

Unless some project manager was tied to a chair and beaten with a rubber hose, no one was forced to do anything.

If a career criminal takes 1400€ from me because his employer has set unrealistic performance goals, I still want that criminal to see justice and my money returned.

Re: LinkedIn is ignoring user settings

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Post by justinclift » Sun, Jan 14, 2018, 6:27 PM UTC

robinhood wrote: post #43

I've hated Linkedin for years, but what's interesting is to understand why. I think it's a mix of - really, really bad UX resulting in an ugly product - the level of emptiness of the news feed, full of people talking about respectful bosses and good work condition while quoting Steve Jobs (oh, the irony) - seeing people becoming apparently more successful than me (if I have to be honest) - the level of intrusiveness…

> I wish I had the guts to leave it entirely.

Just get it done. Maybe see if you can export your data first, just for your own peace of mind. :)

Re: LinkedIn is ignoring user settings

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Post by IgorPartola » Sun, Jan 14, 2018, 6:27 PM UTC

throwanem wrote: post #14

nvr219 wrote: post #10

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Sad but true. Clients look me up on linkedin (I know because they mention it to me) and I'll bet if I didn't have a linkedin page they'd think that's weird.

It also, if you invest a little effort to produce an appealing profile, does a great deal to make up for weak face-to-face networking skills. The "LinkedIn, faugh, who needs it" attitude around here really doesn't do an introvert any favors, I think.

Why not host your own resume?

Re: LinkedIn is ignoring user settings

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Post by kburman » Sun, Jan 14, 2018, 6:30 PM UTC

If I remember correctly, Linkedin recently lost a court case where some startup was scraping it's public data for analytics purpose. And pretty sure LinkedIn didn't like that.

Edit: Heres the article about the court case.[Aug 15, 2017] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-microsoft-linkedin-ruling...

Re: LinkedIn is ignoring user settings

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Post by justinclift » Sun, Jan 14, 2018, 6:34 PM UTC

sarreph wrote: post #20

I'd like to see this issue get more attention. However, I did think this was already known — anecdotally, I've not really been able to view public profiles ≈50% of the time without hitting an auth-wall. What I'd like to know more, is if LinkedIn tracks non-logged-in viewers somehow. I have an inkling there's some kind of cookie-mongering taking place that informs the person's profile that you viewed who you are (if t…

It's definitely a cookie wall of some sort.

On the computer I used to access LinkedIn from, I use two browsers. One for general browsing, and one for "more sensitive content" (eg things with passwords). I used to log into LinkedIn with the second one.

Trying to look at public LinkedIn profiles using the general browser (which has no LinkedIn cookie) never works. Always shows the log-in-wall. Whereas looking at the exact same profile (cut-n-pasting-the-url) using the browser-used-for-secure-content did always work. 100% reproducible.

Re: LinkedIn is ignoring user settings

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Post by justinclift » Sun, Jan 14, 2018, 6:38 PM UTC

petetnt wrote: post #54

Sort of funny LinkedIn story: I was fed up with the recruiters constantly contacting me without any relevance to the work I actually would like to do (if I was looking for a job in the first place, which I am not as my profile states). So I went ahead and changed my job descriptions to things like "The theme for Fresh Prince Of Bel Air plays in the background" and I have now been contacted about my Fresh Prince Of Be…

I just changed my public description to say "Idiot recruiters Fuck Off".

That dropped the amount of er... idiot recruiters substantially. :)

Re: LinkedIn is ignoring user settings

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Jan 14, 2018, 6:39 PM UTC

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Re: LinkedIn is ignoring user settings

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Jan 14, 2018, 6:44 PM UTC

kuschku wrote: post #24

visarga wrote: post #8

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I deleted mine too, but recently I wanted to see someone else's page and was not allowed. Not even a detail shown without login.

If your referrer is from Google, they actually do allow you to see public detail. So just override referrer header, and you'll see a lot more.

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Re: LinkedIn is ignoring user settings

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Post by jeromegv » Sun, Jan 14, 2018, 6:47 PM UTC

justinclift wrote: post #106

sarreph wrote: post #20

I'd like to see this issue get more attention. However, I did think this was already known — anecdotally, I've not really been able to view public profiles ≈50% of the time without hitting an auth-wall. What I'd like to know more, is if LinkedIn tracks non-logged-in viewers somehow. I have an inkling there's some kind of cookie-mongering taking place that informs the person's profile that you viewed who you are (if t…

It's definitely a cookie wall of some sort. On the computer I used to access LinkedIn from, I use two browsers. One for general browsing, and one for "more sensitive content" (eg things with passwords). I used to log into LinkedIn with the second one. Trying to look at public LinkedIn profiles using the general browser (which has no LinkedIn cookie) never works. Always shows the log-in-wall. Whereas looking at the ex…

That is so odd. So I use Safari for general browsing. Typically use Chrome in private window but rarely for general browsing (only sometimes). For a while I would always check linkedin profiles from google private window and a google search and it stopped working a few months ago (getting an auth wall). After reading your message, I opened Firefox (which I never use), googled a name, click on the linkedin name, and bang it worked!