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Re: LinkedIn is copying the contents of my clipboard on every keystroke

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Post by hijef »

ironman1478 wrote: post #225
DyslexicAtheist wrote: post #119

LinkedIn has a history of acting like a cretin: multiple data breaches, dark patterns where they don't fix their buggy mobile site and just put up a disclaimer "problems with the mobile site - download our app" (just so that they can harvest a wider range of data). I managed many marketing campaigns on Linkedin over the years and spent thousands each month on the platform as a corporate user. If you think that paying…

I've actually gotten my current job and just received an offer from a FAANG due to LinkedIn cold calls. I can't speak to dark patterns, but saying the service has no value is disingenuous.

Unfortunately I have to agree. I also had something very similar happen to me. I guess it is a price to pay.

Re: LinkedIn is copying the contents of my clipboard on every keystroke

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Post by achow »

ianlevesque wrote: post #226
ironman1478 wrote: post #225

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've actually gotten my current job and just received an offer from a FAANG due to LinkedIn cold calls. I can't speak to dark patterns, but saying the service has no value is disingenuous.

Indeed. In dollar terms it’s provided the most value of any service I’ve ever used.

This puts things in correct perspective. Same with me, my life savings are because of LinkedIn perhaps.

Re: LinkedIn is copying the contents of my clipboard on every keystroke

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Post by cookiengineer »

DyslexicAtheist wrote: post #119

LinkedIn has a history of acting like a cretin: multiple data breaches, dark patterns where they don't fix their buggy mobile site and just put up a disclaimer "problems with the mobile site - download our app" (just so that they can harvest a wider range of data). I managed many marketing campaigns on Linkedin over the years and spent thousands each month on the platform as a corporate user. If you think that paying…

We were trying to recruit via LinkedIn for our startup but soon realized what a shitty business model LinkedIn has.

We had to pay around ~5,00EUR for each and every click on "Apply" to our job posting, which doesn't mean they even filled out the form.

And now, where LinkedIn is full of Indian scammers (not meant in a racist way, but it is definitely perceived that way) we had costs for a "Local Area" limited job posting for hundreds of people from India because they seem to use LinkedIn via proxy.

When we had costs of over 2800EUR for an ad that was displayed less than 8 days, where literally 100% of people were not even from Europe, we decided to fuck this shit and move on to other platforms.

LinkedIn is absolutely useless. Use University job sites, local meetups (during non COVID times, of course), or open source projects to identify devs that actually care about code.

Also, stackoverflow talents is useless. Their "special startup package" of getting access to the platform for 2500EUR is only for one user, limited per email and phone number, not allowed to login in parallel. Every job posting costs additional 400EUR even if nobody applies for it.

You get nothing, as over 90% of people we have actively talked to are not even looking for a job and never clicked that on any stackexchange platform.

I didn't realize how fucked recruiting is. Srsly, somebody needs to fix this.

Re: LinkedIn is copying the contents of my clipboard on every keystroke

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Post by flir »

cookiengineer wrote: post #263
DyslexicAtheist wrote: post #119

LinkedIn has a history of acting like a cretin: multiple data breaches, dark patterns where they don't fix their buggy mobile site and just put up a disclaimer "problems with the mobile site - download our app" (just so that they can harvest a wider range of data). I managed many marketing campaigns on Linkedin over the years and spent thousands each month on the platform as a corporate user. If you think that paying…

We were trying to recruit via LinkedIn for our startup but soon realized what a shitty business model LinkedIn has. We had to pay around ~5,00EUR for each and every click on "Apply" to our job posting, which doesn't mean they even filled out the form. And now, where LinkedIn is full of Indian scammers (not meant in a racist way, but it is definitely perceived that way) we had costs for a "Local Area" limited job post…

> Srsly, somebody needs to fix this

I've lost count of the number of devs I've spoken to, over multiple decades, who are convinced recruitment is ripe for disruption. I'm sure everyone else has the same experience.

And yet, recruitment's still here, more or less unchanged. At this point I'm pretty sure recruitment has always been terrible, and will always be terrible. There's some perverse incentive buried deep in the process that can't be shaken out. Or something.

Re: LinkedIn is copying the contents of my clipboard on every keystroke

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Post by allthecybers »

ironman1478 wrote: post #225
DyslexicAtheist wrote: post #119

LinkedIn has a history of acting like a cretin: multiple data breaches, dark patterns where they don't fix their buggy mobile site and just put up a disclaimer "problems with the mobile site - download our app" (just so that they can harvest a wider range of data). I managed many marketing campaigns on Linkedin over the years and spent thousands each month on the platform as a corporate user. If you think that paying…

I've actually gotten my current job and just received an offer from a FAANG due to LinkedIn cold calls. I can't speak to dark patterns, but saying the service has no value is disingenuous.

I also started my FAANG career with someone contacting me on LinkedIn. I hate LinkedIn, but have trouble letting go of being ‘discoverable’ should I need another job.

Re: LinkedIn is copying the contents of my clipboard on every keystroke

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Post by JGM_io »

waheoo wrote: post #259
lol636363 wrote: post #254

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LinkedIn had dark patterns on day one. Search posts right here on HackersNews. You will see a lot of shady stuff Linkedin was doing in early 2010s.

That's what good culture fit looks like.

Lol

Re: LinkedIn is copying the contents of my clipboard on every keystroke

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Post by JGM_io »

Moto7451 wrote: post #157
_jal wrote: post #147

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Ugh, I won't use their phone app, they're way too slimy to live there. They conveniently forget your mail settings periodically, too, forcing you to opt-out of various garbage again, or to just trash all the mail. They're at least as scummy as FB, if not worse. My (related) new rule: if your site demands a phone number for an account, I will not create an account on your site.

I’m not a fan of giving phone numbers out either. When I have to I give one to sites I hold suspect I use a number from the safe fictitious range allowed for use on TV and in movies. It’s like example.org but for phone numbers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/555_(telephone_number)

Very cool trick! Wonder if Europe has this as well.

For email I use JGM.io (my own domain). If I see that address being used elsewhere I know who's being a bad boy

Re: LinkedIn is copying the contents of my clipboard on every keystroke

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Post by tootahe45 »

dungdang wrote: post #244
EGreg wrote: post #222

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Skype used to rock before they were acquired

yeah, definitely used to rock when it killed your laptop battery in an hour while running in the background routing other people's calls through you. skype rocked after ms acquired it, fixed these types of problems by providing infrastructure, and it rocked for a decade. it stopped rocking only when they replaced it with the app-looking cut down app, and years later killed the desktop mode program.

Or when skype used to give away your IP to anyone who had your skype name or email without even needing to be in a call or added.

Re: LinkedIn is copying the contents of my clipboard on every keystroke

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Post by inetknght »

leephillips wrote: post #252
inetknght wrote: post #208

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> they still can’t read from the clipboard Incorrect; the API is here [0]. [0]: https://www.w3.org/TR/clipboard-apis/#dom-clipboard-read It is at least supposed to be hidden behind a permission. What's the default for that permission though? I sure hope Google^H^H^H^H^H^HMicrosoft^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hsome evildoer doesn't find a way to override your permission setting. A reset of configuration data after an automatic up…

Of course there are APIs for accessing the clipboard. I probably use Vim’s clipboard registers 300 times a day. None of this has anything to do with closed source programs reading the clipboard without permission. Speculating that somehow an app might “override your permission setting” is not really informative. There might be any number of exploits.

> None of this has anything to do with closed source programs reading the clipboard without permission.

This has everything to do with closed source programs reading the clipboard without permission since there are no permissions involved in desktop operating systems.

Re: LinkedIn is copying the contents of my clipboard on every keystroke

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Post by godzillabrennus »

Wowfunhappy wrote: post #257
dungdang wrote: post #244

Earlier quoted context omitted.

yeah, definitely used to rock when it killed your laptop battery in an hour while running in the background routing other people's calls through you. skype rocked after ms acquired it, fixed these types of problems by providing infrastructure, and it rocked for a decade. it stopped rocking only when they replaced it with the app-looking cut down app, and years later killed the desktop mode program.

I remember as soon as MS switched away from P2P, the latency of my calls went up. Actually, as far as I can tell every mainstream† voip product right now has more latency than Skype used to. This sucks; it causes conversations to flow less naturally. † aka not Mumble, which I will never convince friends to use.

How else can you government record you?

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