>... everyone feels the need to run an ad-blocker.
replyI don't: never have and never will. I don't notice the ads, they don't bother or distract me: I'm online 4-8 hours/day.
diaphimisticophobia: fear of advertisements or commercials
I would bet HN has the highest proportion of people with diaphimisticophobia of any group on the planet.
To be clear, expecting != accepting.
replyThe point was more that the headline frames this as some major revelation about LinkedIn, while the reality is that we’re getting probed and profiled by far more sites than most people realize.
LinkedIn's whole business model is gatekeeping their database.
replyThey're scanning your extensions to make sure you aren't using third party tools to scrape LinkedIn.
It's stupid, but they're trying to stop people from making money on LinkedIn when they feel like they're the only ones that should be able to do that.
Has anyone published useful parts of their database? It'd be kinda nice to use a rolodex that wasn't slimed with the rest of LI's taint.
replyRegulation is also a cat-and-mouse game. Life is a cat-and-mouse game.
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