Ask HN: To LinkedIn am I just collateral damage of a barely functioning system
I have been on linked in for almost as long as I have been in tech. My current account has been in use since at least 2017. On Sunday, shortly after creating a new ad campaign, using the free ads credit provided by LinkedIn, I was refreshing the browser to see how the ads was progressing. Suddenly, I was logged out of my account, to verify my identity. I have taken a live picture, as instructed by the app, and also uploaded a scanned copy of my original national ID card. I have used my ID card for every form of verification I have encountered and never had a single problem. My ID is valid and my picture is what's on my LinkedIn profile. Despite all this, the LinkedIn identity verification page kept telling me "Couldn't verify photos". I have contacted the LinkedIn support team. There has literally been 14 messages back and forth, and all I have gotten every single tim
Why it failed
I have been on linked in for almost as long as I have been in tech. My current account has been in use since at least 2017. On Sunday, shortly after creating a new ad campaign, using the free ads credit provided by LinkedIn, I was refreshing the browser to see how the ads was pro
- Kind
- startup
- Status
- Shut down
- Inventor
- qbqetell
- Ended
- 2025
- Source
- hackernews