[victorkab]

I have no dog in this fight, but I was at LinkedIn at the time, on teams that worked closely to this. I can assure you that these changes were not made to force log in. It was a recommendation from the security team.

I know it's Hacker News and it's easy to criticize LinkedIn for shady growth practices and get praise for it. They often deserve it, but assigning malicious/growth intent for every change they make is misguided.

[gpderetta]

Clicking on links on linkedin emails on android would redirect to the appstore every few clicks. Was that also recommend by the security team?

Fixed by switching to firefox and blocking redirects.

[fingerlocks]

That’s how deeplinking works.

[gpderetta]

I'm not an expert, but i understand that redirecting to the app store is an explicit decision on part of the developer (and in Fact it only happens randomly), and a very anti-user one.

The security excuse is used as a way to increase conversion.