I have come to believe (after grilling spam callers on how they got my work Teams number) that Microsoft is selling corporate Microsoft Teams phone numbers via LinkedIn.
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
#22If 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.
LinkedIn is hot nuclear garbage. Most of the job listings are ghost jobs and the rest are ones I'd not want anyway.
Re: LinkedIn forcing me to disclose my phone number to log in? No thanks
#23I 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 a…
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Re: LinkedIn forcing me to disclose my phone number to log in? No thanks
#24I 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.)
It does seem like they have a lot. I’m on mobile, so I just glanced at the site.
https://supportcenter.lexisnexis.com/app/answers/answer_view...
Re: LinkedIn forcing me to disclose my phone number to log in? No thanks
#25It's a standard measure to increase the cost of fake identities to decrease spam and Sybil attacks. If you exclusively belong to communities that don't have such measures, you will be dominated by third parties who create mass accounts instead of the platform. Choose your poison I guess.
if the guy has had the account for 20 years without being banned then he's probably not a bot
its a data harvesting exercise
Re: LinkedIn forcing me to disclose my phone number to log in? No thanks
#26I 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 a…
Are you using Chrome? Do you have any extensions?
Nothing. I only use safari to access LinkedIn via iOS and Mac OS.
Re: LinkedIn forcing me to disclose my phone number to log in? No thanks
#27If 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.
LinkedIn is hot nuclear garbage. Most of the job listings are ghost jobs and the rest are ones I'd not want anyway.
I'm adding "hot nuclear garbage" to my maledictionary and will use it proudly (with attribution.)
I had an account in 2013 for about a month. I was old back then and quickly got sick of entry level jobs in unrelated fields "recommended" to me along with the gagworthy "Boosters-Pep!" corporate religion articles.
Re: LinkedIn forcing me to disclose my phone number to log in? No thanks
#28I 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 a…
Are you using Chrome? Do you have any extensions?
Right? Dude, please provide some additional context around your web browser stack because something you’re using is triggering their system. That or you’re click house neighbours are using your wifi.
Re: LinkedIn forcing me to disclose my phone number to log in? No thanks
#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
So would I. An identify/human verification API provided by USPS would be awesome.
Re: LinkedIn forcing me to disclose my phone number to log in? No thanks
#30meh just get a google voice number. need one for all sorts of services.
GV numbers commonly don’t work. Somehow they are identified as a sort of virtual (VIOP) number.