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LinkedIn forcing me to disclose my phone number to log in? No thanks

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Re: LinkedIn forcing me to disclose my phone number to log in? No thanks

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Post by danwee »

tamimio wrote: post #5

If you don’t need LinkedIn, don’t use it, I can’t think of any other “social media” platform that’s so cringy and weird like LinkedIn, there’s something off putting about it that no matter how I promise myself to be active there, I stop after one day. If you need it however, just get a burner phone, that’s what I do, I have a second number for all these kind of stuff, my personal never shared in any online service.

I won't be the one defending Linkedin, but:

- I got all my jobs via Linkedin (e.g., either a recruiter reaches to me, or I reach a recruiter working for company X, or I search through their job ads, etc.)

- I do not use Linkedin for anything other than job search. So one can easily not look at their timeline nor stupid social posts (linkedin notifications are off, and I do not receive any notification via email)

So, yeah, it sucks if they start asking for phone numbers.

Re: LinkedIn forcing me to disclose my phone number to log in? No thanks

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Post by danwee »

chunk_waffle wrote: post #22
tamimio wrote: post #5

If you don’t need LinkedIn, don’t use it, I can’t think of any other “social media” platform that’s so cringy and weird like LinkedIn, there’s something off putting about it that no matter how I promise myself to be active there, I stop after one day. If you need it however, just get a burner phone, that’s what I do, I have a second number for all these kind of stuff, my personal never shared in any online service.

LinkedIn is hot nuclear garbage. Most of the job listings are ghost jobs and the rest are ones I'd not want anyway.

It's easy to distinguish which jobs are fake and which are legit. At least in IT I can do that. Linkedin is crap, but it's one of the places in which you can get to know which companies are out there.

Re: LinkedIn forcing me to disclose my phone number to log in? No thanks

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Post by tarek_computer »

isodev wrote: post #58
DaiPlusPlus wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I have private relay enabled via iOS iCloud I can see that might be it - because it means LinkedIn would be seeing you logging-in from different IP addresses in different geolocations every time (though Apple doesn't let you virtually change-country, I understand in the US it does make it look like you've moved-state).

I also use iCloud Private Relay and LinkedIn seems happy in my case. There has to be more to it and I wish they’d make these kinds of guards more transparent. You can’t just ban people because some crappy algo thinks you’re a bot.

Thank you. I recently dropped my full time job to start a consulting job. I needed LinkedIn for the crucial networking during my early stages. Now I am completely banned without knowing why

Re: LinkedIn forcing me to disclose my phone number to log in? No thanks

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Post by freitzkriesler2 »

lopis wrote: post #68
ExoticPearTree wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

you know what they say: any app is a dating app if you are brave enough.

You jest, but harassment against women is rapamt on LinkedIn. Ask any of your woman colleagues the sort of messages men send them.

I still have my fake lady account and this is true. The thirst is real.

Regardless, I use it to troll people on LinkedIn now. Especially CEOs who post nonsense.

Agree? (See what i did there)

Re: LinkedIn forcing me to disclose my phone number to log in? No thanks

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Post by deelowe »

tamimio wrote: post #5

If you don’t need LinkedIn, don’t use it, I can’t think of any other “social media” platform that’s so cringy and weird like LinkedIn, there’s something off putting about it that no matter how I promise myself to be active there, I stop after one day. If you need it however, just get a burner phone, that’s what I do, I have a second number for all these kind of stuff, my personal never shared in any online service.

It gives me Cyberpunk vibes.

Re: LinkedIn forcing me to disclose my phone number to log in? No thanks

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Post by taylodl »

Am going to provide the opposite take - you're receiving several spam calls per day now. Presumably you have a solution in place where you aren't being bothered by them. So LinkedIn wants to add more spams calls to the set you're already ignoring? Who cares?

Re: LinkedIn forcing me to disclose my phone number to log in? No thanks

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Post by marssaxman »

lapcat wrote: post #67
universenz wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Right? Dude, please provide some additional context around your web browser stack because something you’re using is triggering their system. That or you’re click house neighbours are using your wifi.

Why do you assume LinkedIn is correct? I've seen multiple social networks pull the scam where they claim you've violated their ToS only to demand your phone number and other personal information for "verification", and then after they've slurped your data, they don't seem to care about the so-called "violations" anymore.

Twitter pulled that stunt on me: within minutes after creating an account, having done precisely nothing with it yet, they locked me out with some vague complaint about security and suspicious behavior, demanding a phone number. I refused to comply, and several weeks of daily complaints to customer support eventually got the account unlocked, with no explanation; they are clearly just harvesting numbers for the sake of it.
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