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LinkedIn is a cesspool of scammers and identity theft

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Re: LinkedIn is a cesspool of scammers and identity theft

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Post by Zenul_Abidin »

spenvo wrote: post #10
mgartin wrote: post #8

I recently started to receive emails with: "New skill available: Puzzle solving" Begging me to compete with colleagues. Oh, what they have become... I have unsubscribed from their emails now.

Good luck actually unsubscribing from LinkedIn emails. The dark pattern they employ (or at least used to employ, for many many years) is to just periodically add new "categories" of email to send you, that you haven't yet unsubscribed from. Back in ~2015, out of frustration I changed my LinkedIn email to a throwaway

I unsubscribed from LinkedIn emails but they still send me emails of people I should connect with.

Now debating whether I should delete it altogether.

Re: LinkedIn is a cesspool of scammers and identity theft

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Post by dlcarrier »

pugio wrote: post #7

LinkedIn is one of the most annoying sites on the internet. Every time I mistakenly click a link, it automatically grabs my Google account and creates a new account and profile for me, which I then have to go in and delete. Yes, I finally figured out which arcane preferences settings across both LinkedIn and Google I had to tweak to stop this from happening, but I think it was only after ChatGPT was around to help me…

If you use Chrome, or many of its derivatives, you can log into the web browser itself, and many people don't even know they are doing so. It can leak a lot of data, more so if you use the 'sign in with…' feature on many web pages. On a phone, if you're logged into the phone OS you're logged into the included web browser, and an aftermarket web browser may still leak information from your phone login.

I don't log my phone OS or web browser into any accounts, so I don't have to worry about LinkedIn making fake profile pages, but Cloudflare pretty much always assumes I'm a bot, so there's a bit of a downside. Honestly, I'm probably better off not visiting most of the web pages it blocks me from.

Re: LinkedIn is a cesspool of scammers and identity theft

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Post by atraac »

spenvo wrote: post #10
mgartin wrote: post #8

I recently started to receive emails with: "New skill available: Puzzle solving" Begging me to compete with colleagues. Oh, what they have become... I have unsubscribed from their emails now.

Good luck actually unsubscribing from LinkedIn emails. The dark pattern they employ (or at least used to employ, for many many years) is to just periodically add new "categories" of email to send you, that you haven't yet unsubscribed from. Back in ~2015, out of frustration I changed my LinkedIn email to a throwaway

While I also dislike LinkedIn a lot, I unsubscribed once in the past and I haven't received a single email like that in years.

Re: LinkedIn is a cesspool of scammers and identity theft

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Post by realty_geek »

pugio wrote: post #7

LinkedIn is one of the most annoying sites on the internet. Every time I mistakenly click a link, it automatically grabs my Google account and creates a new account and profile for me, which I then have to go in and delete. Yes, I finally figured out which arcane preferences settings across both LinkedIn and Google I had to tweak to stop this from happening, but I think it was only after ChatGPT was around to help me…

Sorry, I don't understand.

Somehow linkedin creates a new account (on linkedin? - so a brand new account?) without your agreement?

Re: LinkedIn is a cesspool of scammers and identity theft

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Post by gehsty »

I find AI has destroyed it, even the posts by people should know better post fully ai written posts (Major renewable CEOs posting AI slop is very sad).

I block the feed and just use for messages and notifications. LinkedIn is a platform that I’ve had multiple job opportunities come through, shame to see it go into slop meltdown.

Re: LinkedIn is a cesspool of scammers and identity theft

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Post by karmakurtisaani »

mgartin wrote: post #8

I recently started to receive emails with: "New skill available: Puzzle solving" Begging me to compete with colleagues. Oh, what they have become... I have unsubscribed from their emails now.

"A [recruiter you connected with 3 years ago in hopes of getting job opportunities, but never heard from ever again] reacted to a post by [a person you've never heard of before]: What taking a long shit while my wife was screaming at my kids taught me about b2b sales.

Click here to read more"

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