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LinkedIn from Microsoft locked me out — they demand I give my passport and access to my webcam to Persona (auzo.uk)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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LinkedIn locked me out of my own account. The only way back is through Persona — a third-party service that wants a photo of my passport, a scan of my face, and a recording of my movements (liveness detection: turn your head, follow the dot, so a still photo can't stand in for me). The stated reason: "unusual activity." The real reason, of course, is big tech spearheading a movement toward absolute control over people.

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[–] 49 points 4 months ago (9 children)

You have the option to stop using LinkedIn altogether.

There was a time when it was useful, then it started harvesting data and accessing your contacts without your permission, then Microsoft bought it, then it became an influencer swamp, then it demanded that you turn off 50+ individual permissions hidden away in a deep preferences hierarchy, then it opted you in to feed the Assumed Intelligence black hole, which is where I opted out and stopped using it.

Job search has always been a joke, recommendations absurd, direct applications ignored and non-existent filters to make job search relevant.

In other words, do yourself a favour and leave.

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  • [–] [S] 15 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    I hear you, but leave to where? Are we being expelled from society for not accepting this bullyish control.

    And we are leaving behind the masses, the society that cannot find alternatives and will continue there and give them their information, if just 50% of the people do that, it is a huge success for them.

    We have to think how to reclaim these spaces, otherwise we are just running away and losing the cultural war

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  • [–] 15 points 4 months ago

    While I understand your point, before I left LinkedIn I spent several years looking for work, nothing changed after leaving, other than not having to deal with the "offers" from "agents" who didn't reply, let alone look at my experience before making a stupid "job offer" in exchange for my contacts.

    Leaving LinkedIn increased my quality of life significantly, even though I'm still looking for work.

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I don't think it's possible to reclaim LinkedIn. It's not exactly a democratic platform and I doubt user outrage will change anything unless their user attrition rate goes through the roof. They can just tweak their algorithms, mute or limit the reach of users to hide discontent from others too. Better to just leave and try to get #fedihired instead.

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 4 months ago

    this spaces should be public, with twitter also, it is like making the village square private.

    a public linkedin should be next, same as a public twitter, in the direction of Mastodon, but it needs to increase in legitimacy

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago

    Are we being expelled from society for not accepting this bullyish control.

    TBH I feel that is a really important point.

    OK, fine, Linkedin, most ppl can just leave it. We managed before it existed, we'll manage without it. But your point is bigger than Linkedin. It's like a cancer. It spreads everywhere. It comes for things we all want or need to do. For the basic elements of living in the modern world.

    I feel your pain man. But IDK what to do. Except keep fighting the good fight. It feels like trying to hold back the tide.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    But then what's the solution? How do you find jobs without LinkedIn? The corporation hell prefers "efficiency", they'll always prefer these centralized solutions to find workers.

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  • [–] 12 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    I have no evidence that LinkedIn provides work, I attempted to use it for several years to find work and was entirely unsuccessful.

    Among the quagmire I left, all I saw was Assumed Intelligence slop and bots attempting to harvest contacts.

    There was a time when LinkedIn was useful as a tool to grow and interact with your network, these days it's Xitter with more characters.

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