LinkedIn's whole business model is gatekeeping their database.

They're scanning your extensions to make sure you aren't using third party tools to scrape LinkedIn.

It's stupid, but they're trying to stop people from making money on LinkedIn when they feel like they're the only ones that should be able to do that.

Has anyone published useful parts of their database? It'd be kinda nice to use a rolodex that wasn't slimed with the rest of LI's taint.