YHK - yet another hacker news clone

37 points lbpdev 2 hours ago 15 comments

And Microsoft doesn't care.

d3Xt3r 1 hour ago | parent

I mean, LinkedIn themselves were pretty shady before the Microsoft acquisition - multiple privacy violations, email spam, even had a class action lawsuit against them. Microsoft never cared.

And anyone who set up a LinkedIn account knowing all this don't care either. I look at people who're still on LinkedIn the same way as people who're still on Facebook. They don't have my sympathies.

lbpdev 1 hour ago | parent

Fair, I guess. So what's a safe site for candidates to find jobs? Indeed isn't much better.

smackeyacky 1 hour ago | parent

My account is only there so nobody is tempted to squat there on my behalf. Perhaps a minor issue overall but worth considering

orionblastar 1 hour ago | parent

There is also a Minecraft scam where the scammer takes over the Microsoft account. https://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/1puiae0/scammers...

nickdothutton 1 hour ago | parent

I really wish LinkedIn would collapse and close so that something useful could take its place. At the moment I feel like it's squatting the "business networking" square on the board, but I don't know what it would take to dislodge it. I wrote a little about this on my blog about a decade ago and I don't feel we are any closer to it being dislodged.

pugio 41 minutes ago | parent

LinkedIn is one of the most annoying sites on the internet. Every time I mistakenly click a link, it automatically grabs my Google account and creates a new account and profile for me, which I then have to go in and delete. Yes, I finally figured out which arcane preferences settings across both LinkedIn and Google I had to tweak to stop this from happening, but I think it was only after ChatGPT was around to help me wade through the mess.

dlcarrier 19 minutes ago | parent

If you use Chrome, or many of its derivatives, you can log into the web browser itself, and many people don't even know they are doing so. It can leak a lot of data, more so if you use the 'sign in with…' feature on many web pages. On a phone, if you're logged into the phone OS you're logged into the included web browser, and an aftermarket web browser may still leak information from your phone login.

I don't log my phone OS or web browser into any accounts, so I don't have to worry about LinkedIn making fake profile pages, but Cloudflare pretty much always assumes I'm a bot, so there's a bit of a downside. Honestly, I'm probably better off not visiting most of the web pages it blocks me from.

mgartin 36 minutes ago | parent

I recently started to receive emails with:

"New skill available: Puzzle solving"

Begging me to compete with colleagues. Oh, what they have become...

I have unsubscribed from their emails now.

spenvo 27 minutes ago | parent

Good luck actually unsubscribing from LinkedIn emails. The dark pattern they employ (or at least used to employ, for many many years) is to just periodically add new "categories" of email to send you, that you haven't yet unsubscribed from. Back in ~2015, out of frustration I changed my LinkedIn email to a throwaway, as that was the only way around the issue I could find.

Zenul_Abidin 22 minutes ago | parent

I unsubscribed from LinkedIn emails but they still send me emails of people I should connect with.

Now debating whether I should delete it altogether.

atraac 15 minutes ago | parent

While I also dislike LinkedIn a lot, I unsubscribed once in the past and I haven't received a single email like that in years.

ta8903 28 minutes ago | parent

It works fine as a containment site.

mawadev 10 minutes ago | parent

Linkedin is a site where LLMs talk to each other