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Good luck actually unsubscribing from LinkedIn emails. The dark pattern they employ is to just periodically add new “categories” of email to send you, that you haven’t yet unsubscribed from. Back in ~2015, out of frustration I changed my LinkedIn email to a throwaway, as that was the only way around the issue I could find. |
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LinkedIn is one of the most annoying sites on the internet. Every time I mistakenly click a link, it automatically grabs my Google account and creates a new account and profile for me, which I then have to go in and delete. Yes, I finally figured out which arcane preferences settings across both LinkedIn and Google I had to tweak to stop this from happening, but I think it was only after ChatGPT was around to help me wade through the mess. |
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I really wish LinkedIn would collapse and close so that something useful could take its place. At the moment I feel like it’s squatting the “business networking” square on the board, but I don’t know what it would take to dislodge it. I wrote a little about this on my blog about a decade ago and I don’t feel we are any closer to it being dislodged. |
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I mean, LinkedIn themselves were pretty shady before the Microsoft acquisition – multiple privacy violations, email spam, even had a class action lawsuit against them. Microsoft never cared.
And anyone who set up a LinkedIn account knowing all this don’t care either. I look at people who’re still on LinkedIn the same way as people who’re still on Facebook. They don’t have my sympathies. |
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“New skill available: Puzzle solving”
Begging me to compete with colleagues. Oh, what they have become…
I have unsubscribed from their emails now.