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by 300bps 4274 days ago
The worst part is that LinkedIn will sell this information to anyone. There are several sites out there that allow you to put a Javascript snippet onto your page and thereby know the real names and any other details LinkedIn has for any "anonymous" website visitor to your site. One of my side programming jobs is a company that does Internet marketing and he had me put the snippet on all of his sites - it literally shocked me when I saw people's real names coming through the stats, all because they remained logged in to LinkedIn.

I generally only log in to LinkedIn with Internet Explorer now. It's the only site that I use Internet Explorer for.

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mind sharing which service does this?
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