Thursday, March 14, 2019

Daily News Roundup: Google Killed 2.3m Bad Ads, Facebook Down, and More

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March 14, 2019

Everybody dreads getting that message.

“We’d like to add you to our professional network on LinkedIn.” It’s so annoying.

So, yeah…

You can now follow How-To Geek or Review Geek on LinkedIn on our brand new Pages there. We’re posting a subset of just our best articles there, so if you’re already on LinkedIn all the time, you may as well see something interesting.

In exchange for following us, here’s some fun memes about how annoying LinkedIn requests are.

 

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Daily News Roundup: Google Killed 2.3m Bad Ads, Microsoft Announced Game Stack for XBL, and More

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