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Some of the LinkedIn Responses are direct and on-point, and also hilariously/depressingly based depending on how you look at it:

EDIT: In hindsight, I think I should've looked into posting this in a different community.. It's closer to a silly "innovation".. soo.. is this considered FUD? I also don't support smoking or vaping, especially among kids. Original title had "privacy-violating" before the "solution".

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[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 37 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I physically cannot read LinkedIn for more than 5 minutes at a time. I get seriously nauseated 🤢🤢🤢 from all the corporate talk

[–] toastal@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Deleting your Microsoft LinkedIn account is an option

[–] expr@programming.dev 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's how recruiters find me, so unfortunately I can't. I almost never open it, though.

[–] toastal@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Only luck I had that route was getting a free coffee & b1tcted about the industry. Networking is better than recruiters 95% of the time anyhow. Microsoft doesn’t deserve your data or attention.

[–] expr@programming.dev 6 points 2 weeks ago

I'm a senior software engineer with a pretty uncommon skill set. Recruiters are the primary way that companies hire in my industry outside of networking contacts and I get contacted frequently. The job before my current one was through a recruiter.

I very much dislike Microsoft and LinkedIn in general, but not using it all is a huge handicap that isn't worth taking on.