Tag Archives: spam

It worked! You can indeed ask LinkedIn to put you on a do not contact list

Posted on February 8, 2012 by Tobias Eigen

Recently I wrote a blog post about how LinkedIn email notifications work, and as part of that pointed out that there is no easy way to unsubscribe from invitations. Instead, people who never want to hear from LinkedIn can contact … Continue reading →

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Did you know? Technically, LinkedIn invites are personal email from your contacts, not LinkedIn spam

Posted on January 29, 2012 by Tobias Eigen

Yesterday I posted some tips to help deal with unwanted LinkedIn invitations. Today I received another invitation and, out of curiosity, followed the link anonymously in a chrome incognito window (control-click -> open link in incognito window). This allowed me … Continue reading →

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Preventing LinkedIn spam – how it works and tips for the spammer *and* the spammee!

Posted on January 28, 2012 by Tobias Eigen

LinkedIn is an important online tool for professional networking and maintaining a handy and attractive online curriculum vitae (mine is at http://kb2.org/eigencv), but one of its strengths (that so many people use it) is also directly related to one of its … Continue reading →

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