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by ryandrake 3520 days ago
The thing that most turns me off from LinkedIn is that it leaks your browsing information to the users you are browsing, through their "who viewed my profile" feature. If I want to just brush up on a contact's background before a meeting without announcing to him that I'm stalking him, I need to log out and re-browse. Major pain in the butt.
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bfstein 3520 days ago
You can turn that off.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20141009022529-27827108-how-t...

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rhizome 3520 days ago
That they create a blog post for that rather than easily discovered UI elements (hover?!), says a lot about LinkedIn as a company.
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ghaff 3520 days ago
It's pretty easy to discover--under privacy in your profile. But, yes, the fact that a number of these types of settings are opt-out rather than opt-in is a pretty dark pattern.
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ryandrake 3520 days ago
Wow, never realized that! This is something that you should have to opt-in to, not opt-out.
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