Creepy visitor tracking using Linkedin • Hacker News Board

Re: Creepy visitor tracking using Linkedin

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Post by nolite » Mon, Oct 13, 2014, 7:19 PM UTC

300bps wrote: post #31

The worst part is that LinkedIn will sell this information to anyone. There are several sites out there that allow you to put a Javascript snippet onto your page and thereby know the real names and any other details LinkedIn has for any "anonymous" website visitor to your site. One of my side programming jobs is a company that does Internet marketing and he had me put the snippet on all of his sites - it literally sh…

mind sharing which service does this?

Re: Creepy visitor tracking using Linkedin

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Post by dkarapetyan » Mon, Oct 13, 2014, 8:28 PM UTC

logicallee wrote: post #41

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. What features would make this a killer? We are working on something that is in this general space and have a few ideas, including the ideas that started the project, but I'm curious what other pain points you can enumerate. What would be a perfect linkedin substitute for you?

Happy to know people are working on substitutes. The perfect replacement for me would be a combination of Forrst and meetup. What I mean by that is that it should be some place where I can showcase my skills and get involved with like-minded individuals in the same or adjacent professions. As someone already mentioned linkedin is really just a recruiter database and the social aspects are completely forced.

Re: Creepy visitor tracking using Linkedin

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Post by 300bps » Tue, Oct 14, 2014, 11:48 PM UTC

nolite wrote: post #51

300bps wrote: post #31

The worst part is that LinkedIn will sell this information to anyone. There are several sites out there that allow you to put a Javascript snippet onto your page and thereby know the real names and any other details LinkedIn has for any "anonymous" website visitor to your site. One of my side programming jobs is a company that does Internet marketing and he had me put the snippet on all of his sites - it literally sh…

mind sharing which service does this?

Visistat

Re: Creepy visitor tracking using Linkedin

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Post by seba_dos1 » Wed, Oct 15, 2014, 12:24 PM UTC

ruben_varnish wrote: post #27

Well, same goes for sites using elements from Twitter, Facebook, Google (think of their JS CDN)... For those sites you can use https://disconnect.me/

No. It's not about how Twitter, Facebook and Google can track users. It's about how you can use LinkedIn to track users.

Re: Creepy visitor tracking using Linkedin

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Post by grimman » Fri, Oct 17, 2014, 6:25 PM UTC

ExpiredLink wrote: post #34

grimman wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's usually around this time I plug Self Destructing Cookies ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/self-destruct... ); it simply nukes any cookies that aren't whitelisted. Edit: For Firefox

> it simply nukes any cookies that aren't whitelisted. Probably not what you want in case of e.g. Google.

I don't see why it would be any different in the case of Google; but I don't personally use the Google services to any greater extent these days, so perhaps I'm just not feeling the ramifications ordinary users would.