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Re: Tell HN: LinkedIn is automatically importing job postings into company profiles

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Post by MichaelCollins » Sun, Jul 31, 2022, 6:04 PM UTC

CoastalCoder wrote: post #8

MichaelCollins wrote: post #4

Scraping for me, but not for thee. https://news.bloomberglaw.com/privacy-and-data-security/link...

LinkedIn may be less hypocritical than it first appears: February 2022: LinkedIn sue Mantheos. April 18, 2022: TechCrunch runs an article [0] stating that a U.S. appellate court affirms the legality of scraping publicly available data. So IIUC, LinkedIn was consistently playing to the apparent law. EDIT: oops, forgot the link! [0] https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/18/web-scraping-legal-court/

Linkedin has always been a shitty company, so I bet they've been scraping the entire time.

Re: Tell HN: LinkedIn is automatically importing job postings into company profiles

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Post by mrintegrity » Sun, Jul 31, 2022, 6:10 PM UTC

ramtatatam wrote: post #7

This is the reason why I never click the hyperlinks on LinkedIn (or anywhere else, including my email, also including hyperlinks allowing me to unsubscribe from services etc.) while in my main browser. Always sending them to incognito browser. If it requires me to be logged in then I just shrug my shoulders and not view it again. That's because I (as somebody who is not an expert in security) can't tell what those lo…

If i understand your description of what you do correctly, then clicking the email links in incognito mode does not help you in any way. The long weird url is almost always a tracking link unique to the specific email that you received. Clicking it verifies that you received and read the email sent you your email adress, no matter where you click it

Re: Tell HN: LinkedIn is automatically importing job postings into company profiles

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Post by danbmil99 » Sun, Jul 31, 2022, 6:12 PM UTC

This is the company that crushed startup hiQ labs for scraping public profiles

Re: Tell HN: LinkedIn is automatically importing job postings into company profiles

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Post by IceWreck » Sun, Jul 31, 2022, 6:21 PM UTC

Ironic that Linkedin hates people who scrape their site which is nothing but user generated content yet they do the same.

Re: Tell HN: LinkedIn is automatically importing job postings into company profiles

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Post by reset-password » Sun, Jul 31, 2022, 6:22 PM UTC

If this is the case then I wonder what happens in the event that LinkedIn's scrapers make a mistake and dont't parse the salary range on a job post, and then publish that post in a jurisdiction that requires one like Colorado. Would LinkedIn be opening themselves up to liability?

Re: Tell HN: LinkedIn is automatically importing job postings into company profiles

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Post by glouwbug » Sun, Jul 31, 2022, 6:24 PM UTC

neilv wrote: post #10

Are you confident that LinkedIn itself is doing that, rather than some recruiter working for or targeting that different company? Or a recruitment SaaS that recruiter is using? (Recruitment seems to be numbers game for a lot of people. And I've noticed a few questionable integrations and duct-tape workflows going on around LinkedIn. I wouldn't be surprised if the phenomenon you noticed was an accident of one of those…

What's the difference? The end product is the same - OP's privacy is still undermined

Re: Tell HN: LinkedIn is automatically importing job postings into company profiles

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Post by smcl » Sun, Jul 31, 2022, 6:29 PM UTC

They seem hellbent on having a rotten reputation. I do not know a single person who likes it other than recruiters (who all tell me they're upset about people not replying to their out-of-the-blue messages). Every developer I know either simply dislikes the LinkedIn experience, or knows about the company's shitty behaviour and despises the company (to the point of deleting their profile or not signing up).

Surely this kind of thing will eventually come back to haunt them?

Re: Tell HN: LinkedIn is automatically importing job postings into company profiles

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Post by gurchik » Sun, Jul 31, 2022, 6:32 PM UTC

mccorrinall wrote: post #2

> So it seems to be a phishing opportunity is to create a profile on LinkedIn or angel.co with a company name that matches your target company. Write some job postings with descriptions that look like a job posting that the company would actually hire. And now those job postings will be reposted onto the official LinkedIn pages of the company, and applicants will be redirected to your phished webpage. Ehh, not sure h…

You're targeting the applicants but you're accomplishing the scam by using the official LinkedIn profile of the company which can hurt credibility.

Re: Tell HN: LinkedIn is automatically importing job postings into company profiles

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Post by ilrwbwrkhv » Sun, Jul 31, 2022, 6:35 PM UTC

A cool hack I have found is that those developers who do not have linked in profiles are usually better developers.

Re: Tell HN: LinkedIn is automatically importing job postings into company profiles

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Post by f6v » Sun, Jul 31, 2022, 6:36 PM UTC

smcl wrote: post #17

They seem hellbent on having a rotten reputation. I do not know a single person who likes it other than recruiters (who all tell me they're upset about people not replying to their out-of-the-blue messages). Every developer I know either simply dislikes the LinkedIn experience, or knows about the company's shitty behaviour and despises the company (to the point of deleting their profile or not signing up). Surely thi…

I have the opposite experience. I don’t get any messages from recruiters after having set the appropriate preferences. And I use LinkedIn to connect to relevant people in my field.