<story><title>LinkedIn forcing me to disclose my phone number to log in? No thanks</title><text>I&amp;#x27;ve used Linkedin for over two decades. Now I&amp;#x27;m being forced to disclose my mobile number in order to log in.&lt;p&gt;Given their track record of being hacked, I&amp;#x27;m reluctant to share it with them.&lt;p&gt;Moreover, I&amp;#x27;m already inundated with spam phone calls, and I&amp;#x27;m not looking for another source. This is a thinly veiled attempt to harvest my data so they can hide it in a page with six dozen toggles which will periodically make my phone number visible to people who buy it if I am not logging into check what they&amp;#x27;ve changed every day. Have you seen how difficult it is to opt-out of email notifications using their website?&lt;p&gt;If they were actually concerned about my security, they would give me other 2FA options that are more secure, like a Yubikey or authenticator application.&lt;p&gt;No thanks. I&amp;#x27;m done with Linkedin.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>tamimio</author><text>If you don’t need LinkedIn, don’t use it, I can’t think of any other “social media” platform that’s so cringy and weird like LinkedIn, there’s something off putting about it that no matter how I promise myself to be active there, I stop after one day. If you need it however, just get a burner phone, that’s what I do, I have a second number for all these kind of stuff, my personal never shared in any online service.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wkat4242</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s indeed sickening how seemingly sane people constantly repeat the company PR line like brainless little corporate drones. Or post stupid jokes or &amp;quot;investment opportunities&amp;quot;. I immediately unfollow everyone on my feed when I see them do that. I have very few people still on it.&lt;p&gt;LinkedIn brings out the worst in people but in a really weird corporate PR packaging. Or some people really believe in their own marketing. I can&amp;#x27;t decide what&amp;#x27;s worse.&lt;p&gt;Ps I also hate all the sales people using LinkedIn to find my details and offer commercial services, usually totally irrelevant to my job. I block them and their companies immediately. But I wish I could report them to spamhaus or something. Microsoft 365 does nothing with the reports because most spammers are also their customers.</text></comment>
<story><title>LinkedIn forcing me to disclose my phone number to log in? No thanks</title><text>I&amp;#x27;ve used Linkedin for over two decades. Now I&amp;#x27;m being forced to disclose my mobile number in order to log in.&lt;p&gt;Given their track record of being hacked, I&amp;#x27;m reluctant to share it with them.&lt;p&gt;Moreover, I&amp;#x27;m already inundated with spam phone calls, and I&amp;#x27;m not looking for another source. This is a thinly veiled attempt to harvest my data so they can hide it in a page with six dozen toggles which will periodically make my phone number visible to people who buy it if I am not logging into check what they&amp;#x27;ve changed every day. Have you seen how difficult it is to opt-out of email notifications using their website?&lt;p&gt;If they were actually concerned about my security, they would give me other 2FA options that are more secure, like a Yubikey or authenticator application.&lt;p&gt;No thanks. I&amp;#x27;m done with Linkedin.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>tamimio</author><text>If you don’t need LinkedIn, don’t use it, I can’t think of any other “social media” platform that’s so cringy and weird like LinkedIn, there’s something off putting about it that no matter how I promise myself to be active there, I stop after one day. If you need it however, just get a burner phone, that’s what I do, I have a second number for all these kind of stuff, my personal never shared in any online service.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chunk_waffle</author><text>LinkedIn is hot nuclear garbage. Most of the job listings are ghost jobs and the rest are ones I&amp;#x27;d not want anyway.</text></comment>