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Any chance it would work for pages like Facebook or LinkedIn? I would love to have a distraction-free way of searching information there.

Obviously, against wishes of these social networks, which want us to be addicted... I mean, engaged.

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Does anyone really get addicted to linkedin? Its so sanitized and clinical. Nobody acts real on there or even pretends to.

The worst[1] part about losing my job last month was having to take LinkedIn seriously, and the best[2] part about now having found a new job is logging off LinkedIn, for a very long time hopefully. The self-aggrandising, pretentious, occasionally virtue signalling, performance-posting make me want to throw up. It takes a considerable amount of effort on my part to not make sarcastic shitposts, but in the interest of self preservation, I restrain myself. My header picture, however, is my extremely messy desk, full of electronics, tools, test equipment, drawings, computers and coffee cups. Because that's just how I work when I'm in the zone, and it serves as a quiet counterpoint to the polished self-promotion people do.

And I didn't even get the new job through LinkedIn, though it did yield one interview.

[1] Not the actual worst.

[2] Not the actual best.

We’ll probably have to add some custom code to log in, get an auth token, and then browse with it. Not sure if LinkedIn would like that, but I certainly would.

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