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Re:LinkedIn shares drop 40%, erasing $10B of company's value by beastman82 on Friday February 05, 2016 @12:33PM (#11043005)
But.. how do they know who you've emailed? I don't get how LinkedIn knows this from Gmail
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Re:LinkedIn shares drop 40%, erasing $10B of company's value by gohrt on Friday February 05, 2016 @12:37PM (#11043041)
In gmail, everyone you've ever emailed is in automatically added your address book. LinkedIn provides an easy (maybe too easy) way to upload your address book to LinkedIn.
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Re:LinkedIn shares drop 40%, erasing $10B of company's value by rmxt on Friday February 05, 2016 @02:12PM (#11043820)
Your "too easy" is my "deceptive dark pattern".
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