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And it's a ghost town.
I suppose that depends on where you go and what you expect. Older communities are better populated than younger ones. (Not age-wise but topic-wise).
where's a good irc chat these days?
LinkedIn is scanning browser extensions
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Re: LinkedIn is scanning browser extensions
#132> Users who had no idea their software was being inventoried, no idea the inventory was being used against them, and no way to know it was happening because none of it appears in LinkedIn's privacy policy.
As if users are actually reading the privacy policy...
Re: LinkedIn is scanning browser extensions
#133Earlier quoted context omitted.
A way for you to make money that isn’t ads / harvesting my data. Exportable format so I can leave if needed.
You want the unemployed to pay? Or do you want the employers to pay? If you want the employers to pay, how do you attract enough attractive unemployed to your site?
Employers pay, unemployed will go where there are places to get jobs. But this assumes employers are unsatisfied with LinkedIn somehow. Are they?
Re: LinkedIn is scanning browser extensions
#134friends, WHEN you are asked to implement something like this at your job, which will you choose: object (& hold ground, loose job) OR comply (& keep job) as practitioners, where do we hold the line between telemetry and surveillance?
Honestly I would implement this. Chrome's fault for telling every website what extensions are installed. User isn't harmed anyway.
cool perspective++
Re: LinkedIn is scanning browser extensions
#135Earlier quoted context omitted.
How ever did people get jobs before recruiters? /s
Well, how? Recruiters got me job offers when I graduated college. I had no connections otherwise.
Same way they do it now. Cold applying, word of mouth/referrals, networking events, etc. Personally my first industry job in like 2012 originated from a networking mixer that I showed up to after seeing a promotional online. My unpaid internship/mentorship before that was a word of mouth from my mom asking her friend's husband which I suppose might count as a connection.
Re: LinkedIn is scanning browser extensions
#136Can someone here please create a LinkedIn replacement for developers that 1. Doesn't have the spam 2. That doesn't look like it's from 2008 3. That only developers / engineers / tech folks can join 4. Doesn't try to log into your email to steal your contact list 5. That doesn't track you or your extensions / browser fingerprint 6. That doesn't have a bunch of fake "linkedinmaxxing" garbage content 7. that doesn't hav…
Just type about:blank in your browser, and you'll get what you're asking for ;)
This is not going unappreciated :)
Re: LinkedIn is scanning browser extensions
#137Can someone here please create a LinkedIn replacement for developers that 1. Doesn't have the spam 2. That doesn't look like it's from 2008 3. That only developers / engineers / tech folks can join 4. Doesn't try to log into your email to steal your contact list 5. That doesn't track you or your extensions / browser fingerprint 6. That doesn't have a bunch of fake "linkedinmaxxing" garbage content 7. that doesn't hav…
How much would you pay for this?
Yeah that's the thing, slight fee vs more annoying site doesn't matter that much. LinkedIn got me a job. Sure I had to give a burner email for them to ddos, but so what. If I were to use another site, it'd be because that's where recruiters are, not cause it's a nicer site.
Anyway if you magically copied the entire LinkedIn network to a clean, no-nonsense site and wanted $5/mo to be active on there during the time I'm seeking a job, I'd pay that. And it'd be more if it had better opportunities. I guess there's LinkedIn Premium, but eh not convinced on that.
Re: LinkedIn is scanning browser extensions
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> What's the actual problem? I mean, yeah, time passed by... And nowadays everyone assumes that all these services are kind of fine, just because time passed by.
I didn’t make an account on LinkedIn before, and I never will in the future either.
Hopefully, continuing to point out shady practices from sites will help more people stay away from them too as time goes on.
Re: LinkedIn is scanning browser extensions
#139This is fairly standard practice for device fingerprinting. LI is probably using this to protect its platform from scraping etc, and extension lists have sufficient enough entropy to help identify users and form a useful component of a fingerprint.
Re: LinkedIn is scanning browser extensions
#140[flagged]
> What's the actual problem? I mean, yeah, time passed by... And nowadays everyone assumes that all these services are kind of fine, just because time passed by. I didn’t make an account on LinkedIn before, and I never will in the future either. Hopefully, continuing to point out shady practices from sites will help more people stay away from them too as time goes on.
You see here how smart they are. And here you definitely read from the smarter one, compared to some average John Doe.
So, no, there is no chance. Whenever you think "this might now finally help to make enough people understand", they'll quickly prove the opposite.