Mastodawn

RE: https://graphics.social/@metin/116335353888270814

For anybody (still) using #LinkedIn on a regular basis (and I understand that there are reasons for it), you may want to do that with #Firefox for the moment. At least the extensions scanning seems to be done only on Chrome browsers according to https://browsergate.eu/how-it-works/, even if all the other profiling is probably browser agnostic.

I personally take this as an opportunity to ignore that platform completely for the time being. My account will remain as a defense against identity theft, but is fully dormant as of now.

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Bruce Simpson, Ph.D.2d ago

@rene_mobile I've been concerned about #LinkedIn for some time now since re-emerging from a long sabbatical in December. I plan to extract my professional CV from it and maintain that as a PDF document instead. That said, it seems to still have some value for navigating with and opening business relationships and leads, but it remains to be seen how seriously it can actually meet my needs as an independent consultant. When I've worked this way in the past, most work came from direct referrals.