alt Hacker NewsI don't have a LinkedIn account and don't really care about it. The one thing, however, that bothers me to no end is all the many, many times when a LinkedIn page comes up near the top of the results to a Google query, then I click on it, and chances are I don't get to the actual information, but to the LinkedIn log-in page.
Not that I think that this is LinkedIn's fault, but I assume Google's rationale is that "everybody has a LinkedIn account" so it's fine to include result pages that cannot be accessed without one.
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LinkedIn was more open earlier I think they closed down much more. It seems that Google didn’t delist the profile pages.
> Not that I think that this is LinkedIn's fault
It is, they’re darkpatternmaxxing.
There used to be a time sites got punished if they treated searchbots differently..
X is the same. "Check out what [politician/celeb] said on X!!" And it's the login page.
The answer is not to sign up to X, but to learn to suppress your FOMO. Chances are it was drivel anyway. Especially true for LinkedIn.
If you like, you can block it from coming up with an extension: https://github.com/iorate/ublacklist