LinkedInErotica

[Actingup]

Just out of interest, has anybody else had momentary confusion caused by the closeness between LinkedIn and Literotica in your browser autocomplete?

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

No.

I've never been to whatever that is.

 

[ADirtyPerv]

Man, I thought this was gonna be a post about really sexy job listings. There must be at least one escort service on LinkedIn, right?

I can't say I've had this actual problem, though. I use the app for LinkedIn, whenever I need to touch that radioactive sadness factory.

 

[BlueZen]

No, but I think the website Literati was very poorly named.

 

[crookedletter]

Ever since @nice90sguy (I believe) changed my life by revealing lit.com redirects here, I have not had to mess with that whole cumbersome URL. I've gotten so much done in all the time it's saved me.

Also I spend a lot more time here than on LinkedIn. Which is near zero.

Man, I thought this was gonna be a post about really sexy job listings. There must be at least one escort service on LinkedIn, right?

I also thought this was going to be about some new kind of networking opportunity.

 

[Writer61]

Just out of interest, has anybody else had momentary confusion caused by the closeness between LinkedIn and Literotica in your browser autocomplete?

Nope.

Previously, because I used bookmarks, and now I use different browsers for Literotica and LinkedIn.

 

[SouthernCrossfire]

Ever since @nice90sguy (I believe) changed my life by revealing lit.com redirects here, I have not had to mess with that whole cumbersome URL. I've gotten so much done in all the time it's saved me.

Ditto!

 

[BobbyBrandt]

That must be a pretty robust autocorrect to populate after two characters are entered.

Like other have mentioned, I use bookmarks so I never have to enter the URL manually.

I deleted my LinkedIn account once I retired several years ago.

 

[ADirtyPerv]

Ever since @nice90sguy (I believe) changed my life by revealing lit.com redirects here, I have not had to mess with that whole cumbersome URL. I've gotten so much done in all the time it's saved me.

Whoa, thanks for passing on this awesomeness.

 

[BellaBestia]

I was hoping for a venn of my current most viewed sites with a job posting incorporating erotic fiction writing, but alas….

 

[KittyOfSteele]

Never used LinkedIn in my entire life, never plan on using it.

However...

Man, I thought this was gonna be a post about really sexy job listings. There must be at least one escort service on LinkedIn, right?

I second this post.

 

[AwkwardMD]

Tindr for middle managers

 

[Bazzle]

Several times!

 

[TheLobster]

Man, I thought this was gonna be a post about really sexy job listings.

And I thought it’s gonna be a discussion on pros and cons of including “published erotica writer” in your LinkedIn profile.

 

[old_prof]

And I thought it’s gonna be a discussion on pros and cons of including “published erotica writer” in your LinkedIn profile.

Well @Actingup started this, so he gets to add "prize winning published erotica writer". Much more impressive and clearly worth including in all resumes and job applications, including every cover letter. I'm assuming that's how he got his dream job.

 

[PennyThompson]

I am a big fan of r/LinkedInLunatics, it always makes me feel better about my career choices any time I wonder if I should have gone into a field that makes more money

 

[ronde]

Just another reason to disable autocomplete/autocorrect on all software including your browser. I saw an article recently that scammers are buying up URL's with names similar to popular sites, like for instance "amazom.com". They're counting on the user to not verify that they've typed the correct address. There's a distinct possibility that autocorrect might correct your error to a valid but incorrect URL.

Some are just sites that entice you to buy what they sell, but apparently a few others give you incentive to click on a second page. That page downloads software that can steal keystrokes, passwords, etc.

 

[Writer61]

I saw an article recently that scammers are buying up URL's with names similar to popular sites, like for instance "amazom.com".

They have been doing that for years. It is a reason why bookmarking sites is a good idea.

 

[TheLobster]

Just another reason to disable autocomplete/autocorrect on all software including your browser. I saw an article recently that scammers are buying up URL's with names similar to popular sites, like for instance "amazom.com". They're counting on the user to not verify that they've typed the correct address. There's a distinct possibility that autocorrect might correct your error to a valid but incorrect URL.

Autocompletion in browsers, when it's not going directly to Google et al., is based on sites you have already visited. If anything, to rely on it makes it less likely to fall victim to typosquatting, compared to typing the full address manually.

This is exactly why the practice is called like that, for it assumes a nontrivial percentage of users will make typos in common domain names if they have to spell them out in full.

 

[MrPixel]

Autocompletion in browsers, when it's not going directly to Google et al., is based on sites you have already visited.

<compu-rant>

I detest autocompletion, and have turned it off where I can. On sites where I click around between pages, I might occasionally key in the top level to then branch somewhere I don't usually browse, and the goddamnmotherfuckin' autocomplete sends me to the previous subpage I was browsing when I hit return. As a former coder, I hate the arrogant trend of software engineers thinking they know more than you do about what you want to do at any given moment, not only doing something you don't want, but preventing you from doing it yourself.

And I shouldn't have to wallow around in settings trying to find wherever the button is to turn something off, which moves with every OS update, or, worse, they restore the setting to where they think it should be. That's the Apple universe, at least; I don't know about MS or Alphabet products as I pegged them as unredeemably evil a decade or more ago.

</compu-rant>

Don't worry, I have a Linux rant, too.

 

[Writer61]

<compu-rant>

I detest autocompletion, and have turned it off where I can. On sites where I click around between pages, I might occasionally key in the top level to then branch somewhere I don't usually browse, and the goddamnmotherfuckin' autocomplete sends me to the previous subpage I was browsing when I hit return. As a former coder, I hate the arrogant trend of software engineers thinking they know more than you do about what you want to do at any given moment, not only doing something you don't want, but preventing you from doing it yourself.

And I shouldn't have to wallow around in settings trying to find wherever the button is to turn something off, which moves with every OS update, or, worse, they restore the setting to where they think it should be. That's the Apple universe, at least; I don't know about MS or Alphabet products as I pegged them as unredeemably evil a decade or more ago.

</compu-rant>

Don't worry, I have a Linux rant, too.

My wife calls it auto-cockroach.

 

[TheLobster]

<compu-rant>

I detest autocompletion, and have turned it off where I can. On sites where I click around between pages, I might occasionally key in the top level to then branch somewhere I don't usually browse, and the goddamnmotherfuckin' autocomplete sends me to the previous subpage I was browsing when I hit return. As a former coder, I hate the arrogant trend of software engineers thinking they know more than you do about what you want to do at any given moment, not only doing something you don't want, but preventing you from doing it yourself.

And I shouldn't have to wallow around in settings trying to find wherever the button is to turn something off, which moves with every OS update, or, worse, they restore the setting to where they think it should be. That's the Apple universe, at least; I don't know about MS or Alphabet products as I pegged them as unredeemably evil a decade or more ago.

</compu-rant>

Don't worry, I have a Linux rant, too.

It’s not software engineers, it’s the product managers.

And I agree, it’s annoying. The current incarnation of browser autocomplete has for some reason started including this annoying Excel behavior of actually putting the first option into the textbox that you then need to overwrite, instead of merely presenting the dropdown of possible options. The justification is that it’s one fewer keystroke in the common case, when the first option matches, at the cost of one more when it doesn’t (you need to press Delete before Enter).

Still, I’m surprised you single out Apple as the lesser evil My ranking of vileness would put MS firmly on top, followed by both Apple and Alphabet in a similar spot.

 

[MrPixel]

Still, I’m surprised you single out Apple as the lesser evil...

Oh, they're pegging the evilness meter these days, trust me. Their constant, unsuppressable nagging about updating to iOS 26.x is crossing the threshold from really annoying to infuriating. I hold the phone up and flip the bird to the camera every time the nag pops up on the home screen, but they're not getting the message.

 

[Writer61]

It’s not software engineers, it’s the product managers.

And I agree, it’s annoying. The current incarnation of browser autocomplete has for some reason started including this annoying Excel behavior of actually putting the first option into the textbox that you then need to overwrite, instead of merely presenting the dropdown of possible options. The justification is that it’s one fewer keystroke in the common case, when the first option matches, at the cost of one more when it doesn’t (you need to press Delete before Enter).

Still, I’m surprised you single out Apple as the lesser evil My ranking of vileness would put MS firmly on top, followed by both Apple and Alphabet in a similar spot.

I have no recent experience of MS browser autocomplete. As for Apple/Alphabet, I think they are equally bad.

That said, I prefer to use Safari because I trust Apple more. I use Chrome for a few websites that don't play nicely with it, and for clients who require it.

I use DuckDuckGo for sites, like this one, where I want more anonymity.

 

[old_prof]

Still, I’m surprised you single out Apple as the lesser evil My ranking of vileness would put MS firmly on top, followed by both Apple and Alphabet in a similar spot.

I live in the Apple-verse, so I'm biased, but I did that because I consider Google/Alphabet at the top of the list of evil-doers. (Okay, Musk has probably passed them.) Somewhere in their early years they lost the middle word from their original corporate motto (Do No Evil). I avoid MS because their stuff is mostly crapware and they've had some notably bad moral decisions, but I still put them as angels compared to Google.