Dave Mason
Neil BrownI am amazed that LinkedIn is not great for privacy.
Shocked, I tell you.
David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)I’m also amazed that a browser from a company whose only major revenue stream comes from profiling individuals and selling services to exploit that information makes it easy to fingerprint users.
Another Angry Woman
Demokritus Jorik 
@neil Microsoft abusing LinkedIn to be a political tool?
Shocked, I tell you!
Jaimie's Erotica@neil Right? Who saw that coming??
Jason@Jaimieserotica @neil what happened with LinkedIn?
Oh, this particular one was about LinkedIn and Chrome, and getting a list of browser extensions.
But, more generally, LinkedIn is a cesspit, IMHO:
https://neilzone.co.uk/2023/06/why-i-suspended-my-linkedin-account/
@neil @jason
Yeah. Unfortunately, the people I work for expect us to have LinkedIn and use it for business development (bringing in work) which it doesn't do - it just fills my inbox with emails from recruiters trying to get me interested in a job for half the pay I'm on now at the other side of the country.
'Billy Big-Balls would like to connect with you.'
Well Billy Big-Balls can kiss my squidgy white ass.
Grrrrr.
i don't like LinkedIn...
Yeah. Unfortunately, the people I work for expect us to have LinkedIn and use it for business development (bringing in work) which it doesn't do - it just fills my inbox with emails from recruiters trying to get me interested in a job for half the pay I'm on now at the other side of the country.
'Billy Big-Balls would like to connect with you.'
Well Billy Big-Balls can kiss my squidgy white ass.
Grrrrr.
i don't like LinkedIn...
> for business development (bringing in work) which it doesn't do - it just fills my inbox with emails from recruiters trying to get me interested in a job for half the pay I'm on now at the other side of the country.
Exactly this.
I know that some people here have found it useful for bringing in work, but I certainly did not.
But, honestly, I am rubbish at marketing.
Excellent!
Given what you do, I guess I'm surprised that that kind of networking is a thing, but that probably just shows my naivety.
I am reliant on my good looks, charm, and social media / blog posts...
@neil It absolutely isn't a thing in terms of bringing in my clients, i can assure you. We're all expected to take a turn at BD events though, regardless.
I'd drum up more work if I sat in the park with a case of high-strength cider.
I'd drum up more work if I sat in the park with a case of high-strength cider.
How strange!
> I'd drum up more work if I sat in the park with a case of high-strength cider.
Sure, but what a legal work....?! :)
Interpipes 💙
Nick@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] if I get a message on LinkedIn they don't ever seem to have actually read my profile or my recent updates, lazy marketing
Mark ⛵️🏳️🌈Thanks for the reminder… I shall add Delete LinkedIn to my weekend to-do list
Far from it… I haven’t logged in for years - any job I’m likely to find on there is unlikely to be beneficial to my well being these days.
Andres@neil @jason @Jaimieserotica Which argues for having a standard set of extensions installed in browsers rather than training users to install extensions from various app stores.
Especially now that chrome has dropped manifest v2 and the debian ublock origin package for chromium is broken, I've been very tempted to bundle ublock origin lite w/ the chromium packages so they're installed by default for everyone..
@Andres4NY @jason @Jaimieserotica
I guess that, personally, I avoid this particular issue by not using a Chrome-based browser!
I am all for uBlock Origin being installed by default, as long as I can still install other extensions.
James Ed Randson 
@neil Well, you should leave if still there.
Roger BW 😷@neil And it turns out this was a known thing and the article going round is slop.
Norm Tovey-Walsh
I love this, so I@neil a social media company (ab)using browser (mis-)features to fingerprint their users for more detailed advertising data they can sell to their customers? Say it ain’t so!
GezThePez
Mint Spies@neil In LinkedIn speech, surely that should be: "I had a moment of personal growth and revelation when I realised that, as an internationally-acclaimed "actually a lawyer", my priors *could* be trusted. I learned a valuable lesson about the importance of believing in myself and letting this guide me in my decision making in all spheres of life"?
@MintSpies Nice. Well, no, but also yes :)
@neil I keep telling people it is the biggest risk to their business in terms of spear phishing research opportunities
People love just talking bollocks on there and getting virtual high fives though, and there are undoubtedly a large section of some industries who have linkedin brain and don’t think you’re real if you aren’t there
> a large section of some industries who have linkedin brain and don’t think you’re real if you aren’t there
I've had this a couple of times!
@neil it is infuriating. There is some sort of belief in it being useful to gauge social currency through your network despite the fact that most of them connect at the drop of a hat.
Colin the Mathmo@neil What?
No ... not shocked ... the other thing ...
funnymonkey@neil
Such a shame. Where else can I go to read self-promoters publishing AI slop?
Such a shame. Where else can I go to read self-promoters publishing AI slop?
@jacquiharper@neil I access LinkedIn from a 10-year-old iPad retained for this purpose
Tanja Travnicek@neil LinkedIn is also omnipresent. While analysing data for my Master thesis, I found LinkedIn cookies on basically every website of Austria's Top 500 companies - before any interaction with cookie consent forms happened. The latter is not LinkedIn's fault, but think about the data they collect through these channels alone.
François 🇺🇦yes, coming from microsoft it's very surprising 🙄
⠠⠵ avuko@neil Can someone or some cooperation please step in?
All we need is a Fediverse server like mastodon on a domain, with the stated idea you'll be in that part of the network as your work self.
Maybe suggest/ enforce the rel=me link trick, for verification at or shortly after on-boarding.
We could even run multiple servers with different flavors on a subdomain, so people know they are all in their work-avatar-space.
Anyway, let's destroy that network effect from the inside out.