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  • I use News Feed Eradicator (works for Instagram, Facebook, Reddit, HN etc etc) it's wonderful and has changed my life! https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/news-feed-eradicato...
    by nippoo
  • Heh, maybe if that had been thought of earlier. Meanwhile what I didwas just delete my linkedin account. Not much good could come of it anymore anyway I don't think.
    by Kim_Bruning
  • So many jobs have a LinkedIn page as a required field
    by tayo42
  • But then how will I possibly know that someone in my network achieved a new highscore in puzzle solving??
    by at1as
  • Games, on what was (initially) a professional networking site. Late stage of the platform.
    by edoceo
  • These ublock rules work badly, but OK, if you don't want to install an extension:

    www.linkedin.com##[data-lazy-mount-id]

    www.linkedin.com##div[data-lazy-mount-id][data-component-type="LazyColumn"]

    LinkedIn makes this hard for some reason, and keeps updating how it works. The above is functional but also breaks some stuff.

    by petesergeant
  • My suspicion is that it's by design, to fight scrapers and extensions like this one.
    by mmarian
  • Why do people use LinkedIn? I think I had an account for 10 years and all I got was recruiter spam.

    Coworkers all use it. For what I don’t know. None of them were hired from there.

    by 4lx87
  • 2 out of my last 3 jobs were the result of LinkedIn recruiter spam
    by nly
  • It's more or less expected that candidates have one, at least in tech/eng jobs I've looked at. For some, the field to enter your profile URL is required in the form.
    by bradleyankrom
  • It’s nice I can send LinkedIn instead of keeping my resume up to date and redoing it

    I have gotten jobs through contractions on it, which materially improved my life.

    And I have old acquaintances that I like to know what they’re up to/to keep options open.

    by data-ottawa
  • I use it to keep tabs on competitors, finding out what potential prospects are posting, mapping out relations between companies in our focused industries, etc. Basically for new business signals.

    It’s a great additional channel to find recent info on companies and people. Sites are usually stale, people post a ton of stuff on LinkedIn. We don’t get our clients through linkedin, but it gives our salespeople better angles to attack.

    We used it for recruiting but it’s not great for that, tons of low quality replies. We never reach out, i personally hate that.

    by michelb
  • > Why do people use LinkedIn?

    I used it to follow Lumon Industries.

    But at some point when I turned on 2FA linkedin locked my ~15 year-old account and demands that I upload ID to a 3rd-party for verification, which I'm not going to do.

    by Marsymars
  • I missed out on the heydey of LinkedIn tech hiring frenzy, because I was just doing my work (on a very small, super-effective team), and didn't want to be on sketchy LinkedIn. Then an SF colleague told me what I had been missing out on, and that other people were job-hopping constantly, and making many times more than I was making.

    That job market era is past, but now I think of LinkedIn as a serendipity lottery ticket. Because you're on LinkedIn, some founder or hiring manager or legitimate recruiter doing a keyword search stumbles upon you, some past colleague can see you're available, etc.

    (Though the last recruiter I agreed to a call with there sounded possibly delegated to LLM, then said his colleague would be doing the call. On the recruiting firm's Web site, I saw the colleague's title was Customer Success, so the recruiter wasn't even willing in invest in the call like I was. Also on their site, they had an infographic example placement success... and the featured example was into what might be the most infamous tech company right now. I bowed out of that one last week, but I'm keeping the LinkedIn lottery ticket.)

    by neilv
  • I didn’t realize the LinkedIn feed was a problem for people. Literally the only thing that makes me use that site is when the safety/shelter tier of Maslow’s pyramid is at risk.
    by mullingitover
  • If your safety/shelter tier is at risk, the last thing you need to see is the LinkedIn feed.
    by powvans
  • My feed is filled with startup/VC/recruiter people liking vibe-orientated junk economics or junk science more than AI. Would love to see a browser like Orion or UBlock Origin just build this in as a feature.
    by jordand
  • > My feed is filled with startup/VC/recruiter people liking vibe-orientated junk economics or junk science more than AI.

    so basically it's /r/linkedinlunatics/ ?

    by walrus01
  • Or, and I know this is novel to the subliterate Wall Street types, just show me my network. I'll even give up on chronological feed if they'll just show me the people I want to see. I don't care what an HR Recruiter for a regional organic pet supply company in western Canada has to say about crypto.
    by flkiwi
  • Something I discovered recently: if you stop following everyone you’re connected to, Linkedin’s feed breaks so you get this by default. I can still interact with everyone normally, send messages, etc, but I do not see any Linkedin content, ads, etc. Do not miss it.
    by adamhowell
  • That used to be the case, and I loved the empty feed. But, i noticed that it started showing me the default feed of all the AI slop people post which linkedin thinks is relevant to my field. The current way that worked for me was to select ‘Chinese - Simplified’ as the language and since I don’t understand it, I am not remotely curious to read the cringe. I now Only see if there is any messages i receive (which aren’t translated). Basically, in and out of the website in 15 seconds if no messages/connect request! Works like a charm for now.
    by analog_daddy
  • Just add this to uBlock origin:

    ``` linkedin.com##main#workspace section:has(div[componentkey*="container-update-list_mainFeed-lazy"]) ```

    by coffeecoders
  • or via stylus

    new style for feed -> paste:

    [data-testid="mainFeed"]{display:none}

    in full:

    /* ==UserStyle==

    @name www.linkedin.com/feed

    @namespace github.com/openstyles/stylus

    @version 1.0.0

    @description A new userstyle

    @author Me

    ==/UserStyle== */

    @-moz-document url-prefix("https://www.linkedin.com/feed/")

    {

        [data-testid="mainFeed"]{display:none}

}
    by anotheryou
  • Works like a charm on brave browser filter lists - thanks!
    by safehuss
  • linkedin cares a lot about preventing people from changing how people view their website, and they have very effective DOM detection code which watches for manipulation like this. So if you use this extension it's very likely that your account will be shadowbanned, meaning you won't show up in searches (e.g. if you are a job seeker you'll stop getting cold outreach from recruiters), your posts will be less visible or invisible if you have any, and whatever other arbitrary restrictions linkedin's algorithm puts on your account which might even include stifling normal communication from your connections. And if you don't care about any of those things you might be better off without linkedin in the first place.
    by c_e
  • Flagged for obvious BS with no factual basis.
    by dominotw
  • Don't threaten me with a good time!
    by ButlerianJihad
  • Please add any disclosures.
    by i_idiot
  • Instead of this I use Leechblock to cut the /feed access after 2 minutes, to prevent doomscrolling (no DOM change)
    by ea016
  • If that were true, wouldn't shadowbanning a worker, who entrusted the monopoly to be matched with job market opportunities, be arguable grounds for a lawsuit for great economic/existential harm?
    by neilv