Or because they were tricked. eg. LinkedIn’s “Connect with your contacts” onboarding step which sounds like it’ll check your contacts against existing LinkedIn users but actually spam invites anyone on your contact list that doesn’t have an account.
This is how a load of emails were sent out from my Hotmail account to anyone I had ever contacted (including random websites) asking if I want to connect with them to Facebook. The onboarding seemed to imply it would just check to see if any of my contacts were already using facebook.
God damn this feature. About ten years ago I inadvertently did something in LinkedIn and ended up spamming everyone I knew with LinkedIn invites. It annoyed a lot of people.
Or because they were tricked. eg. LinkedIn’s “Connect with your contacts” onboarding step which sounds like it’ll check your contacts against existing LinkedIn users but actually spam invites anyone on your contact list that doesn’t have an account.
Linkedin is so terribly evil these days.
I also see the shenanigans of adding new 'privacy' settings and setting them open by default. Another typical Microsoft ploy by the way.
They were evil before.
Previously they’d take your LinkedIn password and try using that to log in to your email account to grab your contacts.
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This is how a load of emails were sent out from my Hotmail account to anyone I had ever contacted (including random websites) asking if I want to connect with them to Facebook. The onboarding seemed to imply it would just check to see if any of my contacts were already using facebook.
God damn this feature. About ten years ago I inadvertently did something in LinkedIn and ended up spamming everyone I knew with LinkedIn invites. It annoyed a lot of people.