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by guywaffle 3103 days ago
Make it fair then! Bots can’t scrape LinkedIn, and LinkedIn can’t sell any consumer data to third parties.
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For real: I really hate corporations 'stealing' data from my phone. For example Google likes to introduce new sync options to Android and every time they do so it is activated by default. So as soon as the update arrives their software syncs my data to their servers without my consent. They probably have some clause in the EULA but as a user of their products I really hate that behavior. A similar case is not being able to disable address book sync before it syncs the for the first time.

Those things should be crimes as the data they fetch is not publicly available on some web page but exists only on my personal device and they take it without my consent.

Install a firewall (for example, NoRoot Firewall) and whitelist only these apps/services you want to access Internet.