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by meowface 3783 days ago
On mobile, they make you install their app to look at anything at all.

Any company that needs dozens of "dark patterns" and tricks to stay afloat probably shouldn't exist. LinkedIn is the same.

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They suggest their app, but the web site is fully working on mobile (Android in my case).
I wouldn't say fully working. I'm using Chrome on a nexus 5X and whenever I go to their website I get a banner to install the app which is extremely difficult to remove. Tiny, tiny touch area. It then gets in the way enough to make the useable viewport ridiculously small.
Same experience here.
LinkedIn is bloody awful. I get email notifications and then i click them and they ask me to sign in.

Yeah, no thanks. I don't think looking up my password just to sign in is worth using the app on mobile.