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LinkedIn is the weirdest product ever. Everybody is there, nobody is using it for anything. Except shady recruiters.
No one is there to get decent information or to genuinely connect with people. It's the digital equivalent of the super fake networking seminars people go to. Everyone is a seller and on one is a buyer.
Makes sense that their ad network is sketchy and buggy.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't really use LinkedIn that much, so this confuses me: > And the membership fees for being invisible are ridiculously high now. Do you mean simply having an account? Or are there now fees for, e.g. avoiding recruiters? I thought that the business model of LinkedIn had only companies/recruiters pay to reach (free) users.
No, having an account is free. But many features are behind a paywall now, like seeing who is visiting your profile. It used to be it was only not shown if you were browsing privately youself, but recently it changed and you can only see the first two. Also, as you say as a free user you can be reached by more people more easily and I hate that. Some of the high-level contacts I know are not findable at all by using…
You do. Check your settings and privacy preferences closer. They employ some dark ux to make it less obvious, but it's there.
Mind you, this experience wasn't much different for other ad networks. Quora was slightly better in that at least there seemed to be some interest shown by people landing (or perhaps this was the only ad site that sent actual people my way?).
I don't know anything about LinkedIn ads, but I watched some of the video that this post is based on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKuyxgWuiRM It sounds like they are moaning that their client side rendered React-based landing page had a lot of bounces which they don't believe because client side rendered react pages are known to be "very very fast" and "some of the very fastest available technology". (This is aro…
I do understand that having less clickbaity _content_ is noble goal (and reason we read HN), but let US do our job in giving upvotes to good topic or flaging bad ones, while having ORIGINAL titles author of the post intended, not the one the censor considers proper.
LinkedIn is one of those things you have and probably only use when you need a job or are desperate for clients. No one is there to get decent information or to genuinely connect with people. It's the digital equivalent of the super fake networking seminars people go to. Everyone is a seller and on one is a buyer. Makes sense that their ad network is sketchy and buggy.
Hard to know how much is ad fraud and how much is people just not being interested in what is being advertised. Don't see why I should care about yet another webinar especially if I'm already a successful CEO and get five thousand webinar requests a day. Might click for more info but then after 10 seconds on the page (and seeing it's more BS) I'll probably bail. Same as this quote: >“You’ll see the call to action is…
Having selected "I find this ad annoying or not interesting" numerous times without any effect. What is this algorithm behind that thinking? Certainly not a good way to get some ad revenue from me (tbh I'm a lost cause anyway in that regard.. can count the no. of ad clicks I ever made on one hand. So I guess LI is helping me here).
LinkedIn is the weirdest product ever. Everybody is there, nobody is using it for anything. Except shady recruiters.
Hard to know how much is ad fraud and how much is people just not being interested in what is being advertised. Don't see why I should care about yet another webinar especially if I'm already a successful CEO and get five thousand webinar requests a day. Might click for more info but then after 10 seconds on the page (and seeing it's more BS) I'll probably bail. Same as this quote: >“You’ll see the call to action is…
"LinkedIn says 11, our server logs show 10, our actual reporting software's only showing 8 people. The only reason that we would not see them pop up in this logging tool is that they were on the site and bounced so quickly that the logging tool was unable to load and capture anything of their session [We've went back and forth will the session recording company multiple times to confirm that]" Seems awareness of ad/t…