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Proposal to Ban Ghost Jobs

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446 points Teever | 1 comments | 26 Aug 25 16:27 UTC | HN request time: 0.371s | source
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Scubabear68 ◴[26 Aug 25 17:42 UTC] No.45029829[source]▶
Somewhat related, I learned to be very cautious about LinkedIn and their job postings. I hit a couple that looked like regular companies and started to apply, but they were really fake job postings just go harvest your information. Even when you abort the process, it's too late. They take your info and put you on a zillion job sites automatically with endless email spam.
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gosub100 ◴[26 Aug 25 18:12 UTC] No.45030202[source]▶
I still won't forgive them for the incident circa 2012 where they were sending out emails from your email account to everyone in your address book or recent contacts list in your own voice (!!) saying "hi $name, I joined linked in come network with me!".
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1. TrousersHoisted ◴[26 Aug 25 21:28 UTC] No.45032545[source]▶
Years later, Pinterest repeated this offense.

And years after that, NextDoor did... and even used physical mail to spam people's real neighbors using the "inviting" user's name. Despicable, and even potentially dangerous in these sad times of polarized and unhinged trash.

Oh yeah... NextDoor also exposed people's exact physical addresses to all users by default for a year or two. I mean... that's just inexcusable and deliberate irresponsibility.