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Re: Betrayed by LinkedIn

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Post by glesica »

muyuu wrote: post #55
glesica wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But at what cost? I get a job today, fine. But then the company that found me the job is pressured to monetize better. Then what do they do? To whom do they sell my data or something based on my data in a way that I do not necessarily approve of? I generally don't like things tied in to my social networks. This is not because I don't think they are useful, it is because I don't have long-term trust in the companies d…

Thinking like this and having a profile in LinkedIn seem incompatible, for several reasons. In any case, by closing API access LinkedIn is not making nefarious use of your data impossible, only a bit harder. In fact, it's almost guaranteed that most 3rd party use of your profile data will be nefarious now, since they have to violate the ToS to get it in the first place.

I'm not worried about criminals though. I'm worried about legitimate businesses that will do things I object to. The criminals will do what they want, and I have remedies available to me in case I am victimized. But if some over-zealous startup with an API key screws me over, there's nothing I can do about it assuming they didn't violate any of the LinkedIn rules (and almost nothing even if they did, since LinkedIn would be the party that was wronged).

Re: Betrayed by LinkedIn

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Post by muyuu »

glesica wrote: post #61
muyuu wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thinking like this and having a profile in LinkedIn seem incompatible, for several reasons. In any case, by closing API access LinkedIn is not making nefarious use of your data impossible, only a bit harder. In fact, it's almost guaranteed that most 3rd party use of your profile data will be nefarious now, since they have to violate the ToS to get it in the first place.

I'm not worried about criminals though. I'm worried about legitimate businesses that will do things I object to. The criminals will do what they want, and I have remedies available to me in case I am victimized. But if some over-zealous startup with an API key screws me over, there's nothing I can do about it assuming they didn't violate any of the LinkedIn rules (and almost nothing even if they did, since LinkedIn w…

For you nothing has changed then. This change doesn't benefit you in the slightest.

Re: Betrayed by LinkedIn

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Post by unreal37 »

ssharp wrote: post #40

Suppose I owned a shoe store and the only supplier I chose to work with was Nike. I built my store on top of Nike's product, became an expert at it, had lots of customers and knew the market well. One day, Nike sees how many orders I've been making lately and decides to cut off my supply and open a Nike Store in my town. No contract with Nike, I'm SOL. I start wishing I had diversified my supply a little more. In tra…

I don't think this is a great analogy in this instance.

Change the analogy to, you are opening a Nike store (not yet open), and your business relies on Nike having shoes with Nike+ built into them.

And then Nike decides to discontinue Nike+.

Nike didn't betray the not-yet-open store owner in that case.

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