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LinkedIn profile visitor lists belong to the people, says Noyb

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Re: LinkedIn profile visitor lists belong to the people, says Noyb

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They can spin it as "the list of profiles you visit is your data", this list they'll probably give you if requested, but in addition they're also willing to sell you others' data (the list of people who visit you). Not precisely a nice way to put it, but it seems consistent to me.

It falls on its face as soon as they offer to sell that data to someone else, which is exactly what they're doing. Can't have it both ways.

Oh but they can and will continue to

Re: LinkedIn profile visitor lists belong to the people, says Noyb

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I am actively working on several senate and congressional campaigns, believe me that these people want to actively imprison some of these CEOs for the destruction they wrought upon the world too. These stump speeches tend to get the crowds most riled up too. :D

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I'm not trying to scare you, just letting you know I'm someone that does more than advocacy. I'm actively organizing with people that share my values.

It's a great feeling, definitely a defining human trait that everyone should experience.

Hopefully you find your tribe someday.

Re: LinkedIn profile visitor lists belong to the people, says Noyb

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I'm not trying to scare you, just letting you know I'm someone that does more than advocacy. I'm actively organizing with people that share my values. It's a great feeling, definitely a defining human trait that everyone should experience. Hopefully you find your tribe someday.

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Re: LinkedIn profile visitor lists belong to the people, says Noyb

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Please don't post national/regional slurs to HN. I agree that it's different when you're part of the group, but from a moderation point of view the effect on the threads ends up being bad anyway. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Thank you for pointing that out. Fair point. Sorry for spoiling the atmosphere.

Re: LinkedIn profile visitor lists belong to the people, says Noyb

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I'm not trying to scare you, just letting you know I'm someone that does more than advocacy. I'm actively organizing with people that share my values. It's a great feeling, definitely a defining human trait that everyone should experience. Hopefully you find your tribe someday.

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Why don't you want to talk to me about London anymore D:

Re: LinkedIn profile visitor lists belong to the people, says Noyb

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I'm not trying to scare you, just letting you know I'm someone that does more than advocacy. I'm actively organizing with people that share my values. It's a great feeling, definitely a defining human trait that everyone should experience. Hopefully you find your tribe someday.

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Please don't twist language in semantic games.

Once you work to demolish democracy, you are not the opposition in the sense that democracies use the word - e.g. somebody who disagrees with government policy, but not with the constitutional order itself.

You instead become an enemy of democracy and of our society.

Democratic states have defense mechanisms against that sort of putschist - jail is not some fantasy, but a natural consequence.

Re: LinkedIn profile visitor lists belong to the people, says Noyb

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This is 100% going to be the boot lickiest comment I read all day

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You're refusing to acknowledge the authority of democratic institutions and instead defend unelected oligarchs. If that isn't boot licking, I don't know what is.

Re: LinkedIn profile visitor lists belong to the people, says Noyb

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Please don't twist language in semantic games. Once you work to demolish democracy, you are not the opposition in the sense that democracies use the word - e.g. somebody who disagrees with government policy, but not with the constitutional order itself. You instead become an enemy of democracy and of our society . Democratic states have defense mechanisms against that sort of putschist - jail is not some fantasy, but…

I wouldn't take them too seriously, there's strong indication that they're just trolling for the lols and aren't interested in an actually substantive discussion.

Re: LinkedIn profile visitor lists belong to the people, says Noyb

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I think SaaS pricing model has long been abusive. So, you have a platform, which takes real money to build and maintain. But then you build features on top of that platform, where some features are build-once and require not a lot of maintenance and no additional expenses - the code is just sitting there doing the stuff. Then you request additional money for that feature, which is effectively free for you.

Unlike physical goods where a higher price reflects higher production cost, SaaS companies have to engineer scarcity into a product that is naturally abundant.

In this LinkedIn example, they already collect the profile visitors for everyone. Instead, they spent additional engineering resources building the restriction layer and then charge the users to undo the sabotage.

Re: LinkedIn profile visitor lists belong to the people, says Noyb

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post #41

I'm not a fan of how LinkedIn operates ... or the culture there in general. At the same time I wonder what happens when users realize everything they look at is now more visible than ever? People just make fake accounts for browsing? Maybe it should be that way, but there's an interesting dynamic to "what you look at (even if not a full picture) is visible to some people".

Also have those fake accounts verified for a good measure, just like all the scammer accounts on LinkedIn.
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