They have deliberately slowed the mobile website and then give notification to switch to app. So they can steal the contacts.
LinkedIn violated data protection by using 18M email addresses of non-members
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Re: LinkedIn violated data protection by using 18M email addresses of non-members
#22I thought US had discovered and was thinking, here come the "crippling 1.2 million fine" :) but maybe EU will make them think twice. 2%-4% of their revenue does send a message.
Re: LinkedIn violated data protection by using 18M email addresses of non-members
#23I am 99% sure LinkedIN used my IP address to match with my second floor neighbor, despite their claims that they would never use IP address as a connection data point. I was sharing my wifi for a brief period with my neighbors on the second floor. My neighbor had a new room mate. The guy was from another country. He didn't work in the same industry I do. I didn't have any of his contact information anywhere on any of…
Are you connected on LinkedIn with your neighbor? Because if your neighbor was connected with him, that could be how it happened. I think it will show if any of your connections know him (up to 3 hops away), but you might need to visit his profile to see that info (I don’t use LinkedIn often but noticed that feature before).
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#24LinkedIn is one of the worse dark-pattern based business out there. Their whole business model is based on making connections between people, however unwanted they are. They use any means necessary to get your contact list and abuse it to spam your contacts with dubious marketing ploys and unverifiable claims (someone looked you up! you're missing on new jobs opportunities!). Liars. I've resisted creating an account…
Reminds me of that mobile popup I always get that tells me to download their mobile app when I'm viewing Linkedin on a mobile phone and I can't move on unless I press something.
Reddit is almost unusable on mobile browsers because of this.
Re: LinkedIn violated data protection by using 18M email addresses of non-members
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Re: LinkedIn violated data protection by using 18M email addresses of non-members
#26I am 99% sure LinkedIN used my IP address to match with my second floor neighbor, despite their claims that they would never use IP address as a connection data point. I was sharing my wifi for a brief period with my neighbors on the second floor. My neighbor had a new room mate. The guy was from another country. He didn't work in the same industry I do. I didn't have any of his contact information anywhere on any of…
linkedIn was suggesting people that were using the same wifi network as I was. I thought this was spooky — I could see more info about my hotel guests than they probably realized.
Re: LinkedIn violated data protection by using 18M email addresses of non-members
#27I deleted my linkedin account many years ago but still get mysterious messages saying that I appeared in n searches (n being 2 or other random number)
Re: LinkedIn violated data protection by using 18M email addresses of non-members
#28I've gotten suggestions to people who have only been on an email chain whom I've never directly emailed with before. In my opinion that goes too far.
Re: LinkedIn violated data protection by using 18M email addresses of non-members
#29I naively installed the app on my phone, which gave them my phone number. Then I started getting cold calls from people who paid to have access to my number through LinkedIn. I never entered my number anywhere, however the cold callers repeatedly told me they got my information from LinkedIn.
This has happened exactly the same with me.
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Reminds me of that mobile popup I always get that tells me to download their mobile app when I'm viewing Linkedin on a mobile phone and I can't move on unless I press something.
Reddit is almost unusable on mobile browsers because of this.
On a text-wrapping browser, reddit desktop mode on mobile is the best way to browse that I've found