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Most services ask for your email address and/or recovery key to recover your account. LinkedIn, on the other hand, goes full surveillance mode. It wants my actual government ID to give access to my account.

If this was critical banking service, I would have understood. But it is freakin LinkedIn, the most I have got out of that place is actual lunatics.

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[-] PsychoNaut@lemmy.ml 32 points 6 days ago

I had to do the same thing yesterday and used my passport and selfie. I then got a notice from LinkedIn saying it wasn’t enough and they want a second ID.

[-] mwalimu@baraza.africa 25 points 6 days ago

The horror! I detest that website with my all. It was one of the earliest places I saw a nasty dark pattern. They would bait you to pay to see who viewed your profile, preying on job seekers desperate for a signal that something may come their way. Nasty evil people those!

[-] PsychoNaut@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 days ago

I’ve been trying to log in just to delete my account lol

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