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Data

LinkedIn recently (and quietly) added this data tracking setting and turned it on by default for everyone. 

It’s a dark pattern that and some of their own employees have been calling them out (link below).

If you prefer not to give away all of your data to LinkedIn’s new product development efforts, you can and should opt out.

Direct link to turn it off:
https://lnkd.in/g4WQyrnD

LinkedIn employee calling it out:
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/evan-winston-750090b7_degenerativeai-darkpatterns-createdontscrape-activity-7242187765424029696-xn2u

would you or someone you know be interested in a list of the dark patterns performed by LinkedIn? 👀

thinking about compiling an informative list

CEO at Google • co-founder & rectangle mover at /icebreaker • icbk.me/j4ck.fc • /swagcaster • DJ sixsix

Remember when LinkedIn bought the best gmail extension to steal all our gmail contacts?

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ok no i don't but that is one that should go on the list

what else ya got 📝

https://techcrunch.com/2012/02/22/rapportive-linkedin-acquisition/

Predecessor to Superhuman

Identity mixologist

Co-founder at @icebreaker

icbk.me/web3pm.fc

Wow. 

“For free” according to the company’s LinkedIn page, but visiting rapportive.com redirects me to a Sales Navigator upsell page. I guess the demo is still free?

Wow. 

“For free” according to the company’s LinkedIn page, but visiting rapportive.com redirects me to a Sales Navigator upsell page. I guess the demo is still free?

https://techcrunch.com/2020/02/13/linkedin-will-sunset-sales-navigator-for-gmail-formerly-known-as-rapportive-on-march-20/

The 2020 article supposedly outlines the history. 

It looks like it was allowed to decay for some time but officially sunsetted in 2020

Some nuggets:

“LinkedIn itself went through a process of cutting off a lot of apps that tapped into its social graph, essentially building the walls around its garden a little higher to encourage more people to pay up for LinkedIn’s premium tiers, or at least visit an increasingly more limited version of the site as free users to bring it more traffic (and possibly get upsold to the premium tiers).”

Oh interesting. I remember no longer using it shortly after the acquisition but maybe they wanted me to connect with LinkedIn or something I refused to do.

It is kind of dystopian that they have your entire professional network and hold it hostage.

To reach it you must make clickbait content for the rest of their network and hope it goes viral.