Ask HN: Rant on LinkedIn dark design patterns on mobile

Im back on an intentional job search and unfortunately started going back on linkedin just to get a wider exposure to job postings. Am somewhat surprised by this but linkedin website on mobile (not the app) does not seem to have any way to log out from the account. I looked for a couple minutes and couldn’t find anything so it’s possible I missed it - but nothing is obvious. Additionally, the expected place one would look for such a “feature” is the top right of the page - and that’s where the mobile site puts the link to messages. So it seems to be kind of an intentional loop into getting Users to view messages rather than leaving.

Am somewhat dumbfounded by this but certainly seems like a dark pattern. Phuck you linkedin for this kind of stuff. I’ve always hated this platform and know others share similar feelings (and know there are advocates for it - fair enough).

My browser is set to not store cookies/cache anyway so after closing the mobile browser I was logged out. But good riddance.