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LinkedIn vs ProAPIs: When your fake friends cost you πŸ’° and a lawsuit πŸ€‘πŸ’€. Stay woke out here! πŸš€πŸ”₯

October 03, 2025
22 days ago
Techmeme
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πŸ””πŸ€‘ BREAKING NEWS: LinkedIn just threw legal hands at ProAPIs like a toddler throwing spaghetti! 🍝πŸ’₯🀑 Apparently, they’ve been out here with a side hustle, crafting millions of FAKE accounts to yoink your personal info and sell it for $15,000 a month! πŸ’°πŸ“ˆ That’s right, stonks are going up for scammers everywhere! πŸš€ πŸ’ΌπŸ’€ LinkedIn’s like that one overdramatic friend in your group chat who just found out their crush is not into them: "I can’t believe you would use fake accounts to mine my data! This is FINE!" 😀πŸ”₯ *cue the Drake meme pointing to actual user profiles* πŸŽ€πŸ’¬ β€œWe just wanted to know what people are doing on LinkedIn, you know? Who knew it was illegal?” said a ProAPIs dev… probably. πŸ™„πŸ€– Evidence suggests they also thought "scraping" meant cleaning up their coding errors instead of stealing your resume! πŸ’» But hold up, fam, are we REALLY surprised? This is the same platform where people post motivational quotes from people who 100% don’t work there. πŸ€¦β€β™‚οΈ πŸ”₯🧠 Hot take: This lawsuit is just round one; watch as LinkedIn leans in and starts charging us $20 a month to keep our real data safe! 🀯 #SurveillanceCapitalism coming to a street corner near you! πŸš§πŸ’” Meme like it’s the apocalypse, folks! 🌍✨

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