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Creepy visitor tracking using Linkedin

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Re: Creepy visitor tracking using Linkedin

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Post by dkarapetyan »

If you don't have a linkedin account I highly recommend the experience of setting one up. It is horrible. You are upsold at every step of the process. Reminded at every step that you should import your contacts and just forced to use horrible defaults every step of the way. After you have an account you'd think the sane defaults would be to not spam you with every little thing that happens on the site. Nope, you manually have to turn all the spam off in at least 5 different places. Once you're done with the spam you now also have to disable all the nonsense default sharing settings in another 5 different places. The whole thing is just a usability nightmare and an example of what dark patterns look like in practice.

I don't know about you but if there was some other network for professionals to showcase profiles I would jump on that immediately. Linkedin is so horrible that if you make something and market it as 'Not Linkedin' you'll have the first few years of growth handed to you for free.

Re: Creepy visitor tracking using Linkedin

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Post by aatteka »

campbellsoup wrote: post #2

Very interesting idea. Where do the authToken and authType come from though? Isn't it sufficient to have the classic LinkedIn profile URI [/profile/view?id=98261032]?

It doesn't work without a token (apparently it did some time ago http://blog.makensi.es/post/3679713636/fingerprinting-your-v... )

You can get a token from Linkedin itself.

Re: Creepy visitor tracking using Linkedin

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Post by onedev »

dkarapetyan wrote: post #3

If you don't have a linkedin account I highly recommend the experience of setting one up. It is horrible. You are upsold at every step of the process. Reminded at every step that you should import your contacts and just forced to use horrible defaults every step of the way. After you have an account you'd think the sane defaults would be to not spam you with every little thing that happens on the site. Nope, you manu…

Holy hell, their Captcha is one of the most aggressive I have ever seen on any website. It's literally impossible to solve and on top of that it's broken half the time.

Re: Creepy visitor tracking using Linkedin

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Post by Mithaldu »

I'm not quite sure how valid such a complaint is, coming from a page that tracks via:

  - Google Analytics
  - Google+
  - Twitter
  - whatever else my URL blocker preemptively neutered
Linkedin seems to do the same as GA, and only differs from G+ and Twitter in that it shows the hit counts.

Re: Creepy visitor tracking using Linkedin

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Post by peteretep »

dkarapetyan wrote: post #3

If you don't have a linkedin account I highly recommend the experience of setting one up. It is horrible. You are upsold at every step of the process. Reminded at every step that you should import your contacts and just forced to use horrible defaults every step of the way. After you have an account you'd think the sane defaults would be to not spam you with every little thing that happens on the site. Nope, you manu…

    > I don't know about you but if there was some other
    > network for professionals to showcase profiles I would
    > jump on that immediately
XING?

Re: Creepy visitor tracking using Linkedin

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Post by steven2012 »

I recently got access to a LinkedIn recruiter-level account, and it's frightening how much information recruiters have about someone. Not only can they look at anyone's linkedin profile, there are additional services (not affiliated with linkedin... I think) that keep a copy of everyone's linkedin profile, even if you delete it. They cross reference your linkedin profile with meetup, facebook, etc, to get an ultimate cyberstalking profile about almost anyone they want. I think it was called talentbin.com, but there are other sites as well.

Very, very creepy and this isn't even the NSA we're talking about, this is a recruiter.

Re: Creepy visitor tracking using Linkedin

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Post by johansch »

me_bx wrote: post #6

The article shows that the number of visits leaks to linkedIn. Any idea whether the identities of visitor can be know from the "Who viewed your profile" page?

That's just a matter of bribing linkedin.

"With Premium, you can see who's viewed your profile over the last 90 days, not just the last 5 viewers free members see."

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