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And unlike with Reddit and Stack Overflow (other platforms that have pulled shit like this) , poisoning your data to sabotage generative AI efforts is going to make you look like a fucking degenerate in front of current and past employers.
This is pretty fucking evil.
Or.
Delete your data, if you cant delete it, edit it.
Then Leave the platform
This setting is under ‘Data privacy’ - > ‘How LinkedIn uses your data’ - > ‘Data for generative AI improvement’
I don’t have that setting at all? Maybe being rolled out in waves or something?
I’m from the UK on mobile. Maybe it’s a geographic or platform thing?
That’s because you left the EU.
Don’t see it here in Sweden.
Same, also in Sweden.
Missing in the Netherlands too. Maybe they excluded EU till they have bribed enough people to allow it.
Cheers setting changed
Whoever actually posts to Linkedin is already lost in the sauce I’m afraid
You don’t have to post to LinkedIn to have your data on it. Unfortunately it’s almost a prerequisite to any serious job seeking in many fields.
I have a linkedin and haven’t gotten shit from it. Idk if anybody else has any luck with it.
Personal data and content you create. So it’s training off of your resume. I put a lot of effort into mine. LinkedIn can compensate me if they want to train a model off of it.
Linkedin of all places. That’s justi a piece of garbage
Done. Tx.
Jokes on them I don’t post anything
If I was a capitalist sociopath I’d go close my LinkedIn but I’m human so I never had one…
I think i had one… no, that was Xing. Wait, what happened with that account?
Thank you for posting. I went through the rigmarole (again) of turning off all of their data hoarding, data selling, creepy analytics stuff. Again, mind you. I’ve done it before.
Ok. I’m gonna ask a question that sounds rhetorical and critical but I want you to know this is a genuine question.
Why are you using LinkedIn? What’s the point? What possible service can it provide you?
Thank you for the pretext!
I was asked to make one while in college, and after college, used it alongside other platforms like Indeed, Monster, and my local state jobs board to find a job. Left it active because I don’t use it for anything than reaching out to recruiters or answer them back. It has one use, and that is networking. People who use it as a social media are using it wrong, in my opinion, but to each their own!
Treating a company as a plural always sounds awkward to me.
When people ask me why I don’t have a LinkedIn account, I always respond with “I have a resume”. What even is the point of this site?
The networking is most valuable. I have my career because of being contacted via LinkedIn. It’s also a good tool to monitor certain trends if you have a decent network. For instance, if you are thinking of taking a job with company A, but nobody you know of who went there lasted longer than a year, you know it’s probably not a good place to work.
Having a central repository of resumes and how those people are connected is valuable. Seeing that I know someone who knows someone else is useful when applying for a job or reaching out as a salesperson. Even just knowing that a position with x title exists at y company is useful when searching for jobs or clients.
Depending on your line of work, recruiters.
Most are trash but the ones that are real have landed me very good work.
I never job hunt any more, companies just come to me, and I just interview throughout the year.
I’ve yet to find any sort of success from using LinkedIn to find job opportunities. Of all the job hunting sites out there, I find it the least helpful, often giving preference to employers rather than candidates in the hiring process. It sucks ass.
I used it after I was laid off 2 years ago and was able to find a new job after a little less than 3 months. Which sites do you have experience with that you’d recommend?
And to be clear, I found LinkedIn useful for job hunting… as a social media site it is horrible. Full of people who define themselves by their paychecks, salespeople who are just looking for someone to cold call, and ‘self-made successful people’ looking for success and validation.
I’m unsure if it’s different here outside the States. I’ve been using Indeed and its local variants where I at least get someone on the phone regularly. But on LinkedIn, it’s like all my applications fall into a void. Even recruiters who cold-contact me on there with an offer seem to ghost me immediately. It doesn’t help that it’s the only site where salaries aren’t posted, which is kind of a big deal considering how little some companies want to pay for junior and mid-level devs.
But tbh, sometimes I feel like companies exploit the application process to get people’s info to input into a marketing database. I once got on a call with someone asking me for my height and weight. Like, what does my body size have to do with the job where I sit at a computer all day? Maybe I’m wrong but those kinds of details can only be used for discrimination or to kidnap me, right? Even my friend was weirded out by that one when I asked him if that had ever happened to him over the years and he said no.
It used to be a registry for resumes to connect with other professionals for future opportunities or let them leave recommendations to validate credentials and skills. They added the job platform which was a good idea, but there are no minimum requirements for it and now it’s crap - of course the job search function is crap too since it never really finds what you want, only what others have looked at a lot and are somewhat in the field of your search term.
LinkedIn could’ve been a very useful site had they not strayed, but it’s too late now.
No shit?
Thanks for reminding me that I had to close my never used LinkedIn account. I always forget because I have some other stuff to do and always say “I’ll do it later”. It’s done now. Not that they could use anything from it since I never posted anything but still…
There are very few places on the Internet where your data won’t be scraped and used for AI training. Every social media company does this, including Discord and Reddit. Federated platforms are quite easy to scrape (not sure if they are yet). Even if you make your own website, it’s definitely going to be scraped by crawlers from every company wanting to make AI.
