Eh, they can’t be honest about wanting you to use the app to be able to collect your data better.
Their flawed reasoning is that you’ll just love all the targeted bullshit you’ll receive as a side effect of their surveillance.
You will also love all the notifications
I hope those include countless offers on goods sold via affiliate hyperlinks!
Can’t serve as many ads on the website because of ad blockers tho.
ad blockers work even better in apps thou?
since due to play store limitations all ads are coming from a single, easily blockable domainNot everyone has a PiHole (but everyone should!)
I dunno, I get what they’re saying. On my phone I much rather use a native app if it’s available than a website, even if they have a dedicated mobile version. Navigation is much better, UI is better, etc.
The app is asking for a million permissions that are completely unnecessary. They are just as much of a data kraken as facbeook, google and apple, with the exception of people being fully transparent about professional achievements and qualifications. That’s a definite reason to never give them access to my phone.
It’s not though. Do you have the app? I do. On iOS you can literally see what it has already requested to have access to, and if you said yes or no.
The app has never requested access to my contacts, meaning it has zero access to my contacts. Location? Not even once. Search history? Never. Like this isn’t even hard to prove. I just took this screenshot an hour ago:
See? Linkedin has never requested access to my contacts, which is the very first thing listed in the screenshot on this thread about what information it may get access to. People seem to be overlooking the word “may”. It may have access to your contacts…if you try to do something specifically with your phone contacts and then it asks you if it can and you say yes. Outside of that? No access.
The only data that the app has access to is what I do on the app, which is exactly the same data that it has access to when I access linkedin via their website in a web browser.
