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Re: Stop Using LinkedIn

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Post by nl »

rnovak wrote: post #104
monochromatic wrote: post #93

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> The assholes sent 300 people linkedin connection requests through my own personal gmail account. With zero warning whatsoever. The fact that they requested access to your email account should have been warning enough.

I can't understand why anyone would give any entity access to their email, it's really baffling. I personally see LinkedIn as horrible, and deleted my account long ago. They don't let you restrict who can view your profile, and they allow people to remain anonymous. For anyone who cares about Privacy, this should be a huge no-no.

Wait.

You have deleted your account and clearly don't find LinkedIn useful.

Are you really surprised that you don't understand why people who do find LinkedIn useful (and there are large numbers) would use it the way they do?

Re: Stop Using LinkedIn

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Post by DyslexicAtheist »

slaction wrote: post #188

People actually use LinkedIn more that a couple of times a year?

it has turned into a publishing platform which is what they have done right compared to their competition (Xing, Viadeo). useful or not they manage to keep people engaged and coming back.

Re: Stop Using LinkedIn

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Post by ihnorton »

brianzelip wrote: post #128
ruperp wrote: post #77

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We tweaked the copy a bit. Would love your suggestions on something better. Thanks for the constructive feedback!

Another academic networking site for scientists is ResearchGate. http://www.researchgate.net/

ResearchGate as a replacement for LinkedIn, on account of LinkedIn's spammy tactics? I can only hope this was meant in jest; if so: well-played, friend, well-played indeed. ResearchGate has taken dark marketing into the realm of high art.

Re: Stop Using LinkedIn

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Post by mattmanser »

eridius wrote: post #212
vsl wrote: post #210

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That would only be true for only some recipients (by far not "everybody") only if Google's SPF record forbade other SMTP servers with -all. It doesn't, it uses ~all soft-fail. Why? Precisely because of this: there are lots of perfectly legitimate situations when a third party sends email on your behalf. Moreover, if LinkedIn signs their outgoing emails with DKIM, that would be a positive signal for a spam filter (and…

Sounds like you know more about this than I do. I will defer to your greater knowledge. Although "there are lots of perfectly legitimate situations when a third party sends email on your behalf" strikes me as being rather wrong. I cannot think of a single reason why anyone else should be sending email that claims to be coming from my email address. Sending email that lists me as a reply-to, sure. But as the sender? N…

It's common in enterprise products where the user's first action is in a non-email.

Like I've uploaded version 1 of the plans, added some notes and the system needs to send out an email to everyone, I did the action, it's coming from me, not the system.

There's a reason it's part of the spec.

Re: Stop Using LinkedIn

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Post by eridius »

mattmanser wrote: post #226
eridius wrote: post #212

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Sounds like you know more about this than I do. I will defer to your greater knowledge. Although "there are lots of perfectly legitimate situations when a third party sends email on your behalf" strikes me as being rather wrong. I cannot think of a single reason why anyone else should be sending email that claims to be coming from my email address. Sending email that lists me as a reply-to, sure. But as the sender? N…

It's common in enterprise products where the user's first action is in a non-email. Like I've uploaded version 1 of the plans, added some notes and the system needs to send out an email to everyone, I did the action, it's coming from me, not the system. There's a reason it's part of the spec.

You did the action, but that does not ever justify sending the email with an envelope claiming it came from you. Because you did not send the email. It could certainly put you as a Reply-To on the email, and it might possibly justify putting your name on the From line, but actually claiming to have been sent from your email address is wrong.

Re: Stop Using LinkedIn

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Post by eridius »

syntaxgoonoo wrote: post #219
eridius wrote: post #207

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That would instantly get flagged as spam by virtually everybody if SPF is enabled on his domain. And yes, gmail.com seems to have SPF enabled.

Errm no, a reply-to header is not the same as a sender envelope. Spam filters will flag emails that are faking the sender envelope. Spf is also only checking sender envelope. A reply-to can generally be what ever you want, same for from header... So linked sends email with from and reply-to headers set with your email, but sender envelop is from their server. So email appears to come from you, but was sent from linke…

When did I ever say anything about reply-to? Please do not put words in my mouth and then speak condescendingly to me. It's extremely irritating.

Re: Stop Using LinkedIn

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Post by mlangdon »

cstejerean wrote: post #208
basseq wrote: post #72

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I don't think I ever granted them access, but somehow they got a list of random email contacts. So every once in a while I'll get an email that says, "Connect with Joe?" Looks like a normal inbound connection request, but it's actually a trap to get YOU to initiate a request. Awkward for contacts you might accept a request from, but not reach out to.

Are you using an Android phone? I noticed this too with LinkedIn and it happened immediately after installing LinkedIn on Android. Never happened in previous years while using iOS.

The really messed up part is that the app has basically every permission turned on AND ships with some on-contract phones. So although I had never once opened the app, it was running in the background on an old POS HTC I had. Pretty sure that's where they got every contact ever.

Re: Stop Using LinkedIn

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Post by liquidcool »

andrewstuart wrote: post #183

I just find it incredibly creepy that LinkedIn seems to know that I am connected to certain people - I cannot imagine they worked out that I do in fact know that person - not by any obvious means.

It was posited that your email in their contact list might trigger it, but I've seen it happen after I viewed someone's profile. It appears to guess that X days after viewing the profile, you may now know them.
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