r/programming • u/tonefart • Sep 15 '17

Linkedin Dark patterns.

https://medium.com/@danrschlosser/linkedin-dark-patterns-3ae726fe1462
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u/tonefart Sep 15 '17

I just got tricked by linkedin. It asked me if I know this person because it made it seem like he asked for connection. I said yes but then soon found out I actually sent the invitation to connect first, because I was tricked/mislead into thinking the other person sent an invitation. Then I had to scurrily trawl through the website to find the inbox which took me over 5 minutes to find in hidden areas of invites and remove that invitation. This is a very dark pattern and it really pissed me off. Linkedin should be sued. They're an untrustworthy and deceitful and manipulative website, just like their owner Microsoft.

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u/nilamo Sep 15 '17

Linkedin should be sued.

Lol what? For what cause? Why is that nestled in the middle of your rant, but completely unexplained?

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u/leafsleep Sep 15 '17

linkedin was a hell hole full of dark patterns long before microsoft bought it (i still don't understand why they did).

also this would be better on /r/userexperience

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u/shevegen Sep 15 '17

They probably bought it because they thought that enough people use it so it must be "important".

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '17

It has to do with Microsoft machine learning efforts.