This is one of the reasons I maintain offline list of all my LinkedIn contacts and also why I ban LinkedIn feed through AdBlock with custom rule. I currently use LinkedIn solely as medium enabling recruiters to cold call me, and as such it is good place to have an account because quite a few recruiters are there.
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#123I never thought I would say this but LinkedIn seems to have gone even further downhill than it was a few years ago. You know things are bad when even the low end recruiters seem to have left the platform. These days 90% of the contacts/connect requests I receive are from dodgy pension "advisors" trying to get their hands on my pension pot cash.
Where else do you think people are going for informal networking / keeping up with old contacts?
(Ie just the messaging part)
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#124Earlier quoted context omitted.
Or four, as suggested by the top comment: Linkedin pro and correlating "who viewed all of my reported accounts recently?"
Or 5 parallel construction, which is just 2, but they blame 4 :)
Or 6. CIA is front for these drug mafias and has access to all your mails.
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#126Earlier quoted context omitted.
I did that 10 years ago when they got hacked[1], later recruiters from two FAANG companies even found me without it (The first found me on Github, and another through a referral) and I worked for a couple of years at both companies. Like you, I'd thought I had a good run without it. More recently, I noticed that some of the people who were way junior to me earlier in my career, are way ahead of me because they were s…
Would be interesting to know, whether they purely optimize for the money and jumped ship at every opportunity, or they somehow managed to make recruiters pay attention to their profile and actually read and understand anything on the profile. And if so, how they managed to make recruiters do that.
I think it's just a matter of better odds with better discoverability. Also, every jump almost always entails a monotonic improvement in pay and likely also the title. And the tech job market seems to have been quite buyoant in the past couple of years.
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#128I recommend filing a report with the Microsoft Security Response Center, especially in light that a malicious party may now have information on you, and as people below pointed out there may be (1) risk of Doxing, and/or (2) there are some suggestions that Microsoft (LinkedIn) employees may be compromised. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/msrc (Report an Issue)
I wonder whether by compromised you mean: 1. compromised in the spy movie sense of them voluntarily passing information to the scammers (potentially for money) 2. compromised in the IT security sense of their accounts or computers having been hacked 3. some superset of 1. and 2.
> in the spy movie sense
It’s not just in the movies.
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/03/a-closer-look-at-the-lap...
> Microsoft says LAPSUS$ — which it boringly calls “DEV-0537” — mostly gains illicit access to targets via “social engineering.” This involves bribing or tricking employees at the target organization or at its myriad partners, such as customer support call centers and help desks.
> “Microsoft found instances where the group successfully gained access to target organizations through recruited employees (or employees of their suppliers or business partners),” Microsoft wrote.
Re: Tell HN: Banned from LinkedIn for Reporting Wickr Drug Spam
#129I had LinkedIn until October 2021. A colleague was leaving, and I'd been asked to go around the team of 200 people, gathering farewell greetings. Another work project at the same time was the software language translations for our product. I manually trimmed the list of 200 colleagues down to 70 "international" names. Then I manually searched for each colleague on Google, and clicked the first link. Usually that was…
Why do you consider yourself unable to use LinkedIn? Create a new account with a new email.
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#130Related to this how does one report Crypto draining scam scripts being posted on Github now that Microsoft owns GitHUb?