A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.
Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.
Some Rules
- Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn’t great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
- Don’t promote proprietary software
- Try to keep things on topic
- If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
- Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
- Be nice :)
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The only reason that LinkedIn is doing this is money. Not yours, theirs.
By jumping through the hoops, you prove that you are you and suddenly your data is more valuable to people marketing on the platform.
Remember, LinkedIn is owned by Microsoft.
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You could ditch gmail and run your own VPS with a mail server and website and move your Linkedin CV data to your own site.
All surveillance problems solved for about $50 per year.
What you mean by 'big-brothers", intelligence agencies? Or corporations? Or what exactly?
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There is also no reason to go through the verification process on LinkedIn. It doesn’t gain you anything and no one actually cares about that banner or check or whatever they want to do. It doesn’t help in any way. It’s just giving them even more info than they already have, which is why I decoded against doing it on my account.
It also normalizes the practice, the more people do it for just that shiny checkmark. Unless you are legit a public figure who could be impersonated, it’s actively detrimental to everyone else’s privacy to get verified.
I saw a fucking ad on my profile “those who verify their identity get 70% more views”…than fucking what after 2 weeks? A data company but their marketing is done by the spice girls
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