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This is something important you should know about.[/h3]
A chap was on the linkedin B&B group and for some reason there was a friggin' booking.com LINK attached to his comment. I contacted him, and he couldn't figure it out. He could not get rid of it. He finally deleted the whole thread.
Now, here is the rest of the story...just so you know:
third party advertising attached to your comments...
(name and B&B removed by JB)
Top Contributor
Yesterday, I posted a comment on here about people leaving comments on trip advisor and booking.com and unwittingly I allowed an advert from booking.com to attach itself to my message.
I was alerted to this but was unable to remove it and finally deleted my comment and resubmitted it and successfully blocked the advert-
I contacted linkedin regarding this phenomenen and there reply is in this message below.
It seems that they give your personal information to sites like booking.com and allow them this privilege, without your permsission.
I have contacted booking.com but there is nowhere on their site that allows you to prevent this.
I have neither given permsission to linkedin nor booking.com to use my email adress or private information to allow them to attach advertising to my comments.
I have voiced my disapproval to linked in and have every intention now of resigning from this site as I find this offensive and invasive.
I think all members should be made aware of this ploy and it saddens me that here another great site has given in the money grabbing and scrambling, without any regard ones privacy- where will it all end??
Heres their reponse to me-
Hi (names removed by JB),
Thank you for contacting me about booking.com associating with your discussions and comments.
LinkedIn allows third part sites to use LinkedIn password authentication to join their sites. Sometimes they request access to the submissions you make in groups. You would need to go to your booking.com account to turn off this setting.
If you have further questions, please feel free to reply to this message.
John
Customer Experience Advocate
This is something important you should know about.[/h3]
A chap was on the linkedin B&B group and for some reason there was a friggin' booking.com LINK attached to his comment. I contacted him, and he couldn't figure it out. He could not get rid of it. He finally deleted the whole thread.
Now, here is the rest of the story...just so you know:
third party advertising attached to your comments...
(name and B&B removed by JB)
Top Contributor
Yesterday, I posted a comment on here about people leaving comments on trip advisor and booking.com and unwittingly I allowed an advert from booking.com to attach itself to my message.
I was alerted to this but was unable to remove it and finally deleted my comment and resubmitted it and successfully blocked the advert-
I contacted linkedin regarding this phenomenen and there reply is in this message below.
It seems that they give your personal information to sites like booking.com and allow them this privilege, without your permsission.
I have contacted booking.com but there is nowhere on their site that allows you to prevent this.
I have neither given permsission to linkedin nor booking.com to use my email adress or private information to allow them to attach advertising to my comments.
I have voiced my disapproval to linked in and have every intention now of resigning from this site as I find this offensive and invasive.
I think all members should be made aware of this ploy and it saddens me that here another great site has given in the money grabbing and scrambling, without any regard ones privacy- where will it all end??
Heres their reponse to me-
Hi (names removed by JB),
Thank you for contacting me about booking.com associating with your discussions and comments.
LinkedIn allows third part sites to use LinkedIn password authentication to join their sites. Sometimes they request access to the submissions you make in groups. You would need to go to your booking.com account to turn off this setting.
If you have further questions, please feel free to reply to this message.
John
Customer Experience Advocate