It is infuriating how many websites require you to give out your phone number in order to sign up or log in these days.
There is no better unique identifier around. perfect for mapping this website's data to Every Advertisers Data Ever.
LinkedIn forcing me to disclose my phone number to log in? No thanks
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Re: LinkedIn forcing me to disclose my phone number to log in? No thanks
#12Linked in used to get me cold calls by using my phone verification input. So they can fuck right off.
Re: LinkedIn forcing me to disclose my phone number to log in? No thanks
#13It is infuriating how many websites require you to give out your phone number in order to sign up or log in these days.
I would like to see a better alternative way to discourage both bot-accounts and, to a lesser extent, human-farmed accounts. Well, we do, and it’s Device Attestation, but that’s just as bad, if not worse, honestly - at least with a phone-number we can use our own hardware.
Scanning your eyeballs?
Re: LinkedIn forcing me to disclose my phone number to log in? No thanks
#14I haven't been asked for this bullshit but I probably won't either. Or take a burner or something.
Re: LinkedIn forcing me to disclose my phone number to log in? No thanks
#15If you don’t need LinkedIn, don’t use it, I can’t think of any other “social media” platform that’s so cringy and weird like LinkedIn, there’s something off putting about it that no matter how I promise myself to be active there, I stop after one day. If you need it however, just get a burner phone, that’s what I do, I have a second number for all these kind of stuff, my personal never shared in any online service.
It's indeed sickening how seemingly sane people constantly repeat the company PR line like brainless little corporate drones. Or post stupid jokes or "investment opportunities". I immediately unfollow everyone on my feed when I see them do that. I have very few people still on it.
LinkedIn brings out the worst in people but in a really weird corporate PR packaging. Or some people really believe in their own marketing. I can't decide what's worse.
Ps I also hate all the sales people using LinkedIn to find my details and offer commercial services, usually totally irrelevant to my job. I block them and their companies immediately. But I wish I could report them to spamhaus or something. Microsoft 365 does nothing with the reports because most spammers are also their customers.
Re: LinkedIn forcing me to disclose my phone number to log in? No thanks
#16Absolutely agree, why are we using SMS as a de-facto 2FA method. So many good options these days like TOTP and passkeys
Because it is not just 2FA, it is human verification.
I would prefer to give up my ID (with mailing address censored, of course) because at least then they cannot use it to contact me.
Re: LinkedIn forcing me to disclose my phone number to log in? No thanks
#17I see a whole lot of LinkedIn profiles who have identified/verified themselves with a "Government ID." Imagine that.
Re: LinkedIn forcing me to disclose my phone number to log in? No thanks
#18meh just get a google voice number. need one for all sorts of services.
Re: LinkedIn forcing me to disclose my phone number to log in? No thanks
#19I have a friend who is a lawyer and has access to LexisNexis. When I found out what is in there for sale (and it's like a 30 year old service!), I kinda wanted to give up. It all feels like "Privacy Theater". Why would I worry about linked in when people can buy my most private info from so many places that I didn't even know existed?
Are we just kidding ourselves? (I live in the USA.)
Re: LinkedIn forcing me to disclose my phone number to log in? No thanks
#20I hear you. I just got officially banned permanently yesterday. I do not use their app except the web. Last month I was kicked off because they claimed that I am using an automation tool, which I don’t. The second time they kicked me out, they asked me to confirm that I do not use an automation all. I said I don’t. Yesterday, I got kicked out and was told to upload a government id such as a driving license. Shortly after, I got a message “ We've deemed the activity in your account is in violation of the LinkedIn User Agreement and Professional Community Policies. Your appeal has been denied and your account has been restricted permanently.
Please see our User Agreement and Professional Community Policies for more information.”
I am not able to talk or ask anyone at LinkedIn why I have been banned. Is it because I don’t use their app? I don’t know.