linkedin cares a lot about preventing people from changing how people view their website, and they have very effective DOM detection code which watches for manipulation like this. So if you use this extension it's very likely that your account will be shadowbanned, meaning you won't show up in searches (e.g. if you are a job seeker you'll stop getting cold outreach from recruiters), your posts will be less visible or invisible if you have any, and whatever other arbitrary restrictions linkedin's algorithm puts on your account which might even include stifling normal communication from your connections. And if you don't care about any of those things you might be better off without linkedin in the first place.

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r-johnv 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Do you have any sources for this? (Even anecdotal such as conversations with people in the know)

I recently built myself a good tool that blocks all sponsored, promoted and recommended posts, and it's been incredible. This information if true would be a genuine concern!

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cxr 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Plenty of discussion about this on HN over the last six months

<https://github.com/mdp/linkedin-extension-fingerprinting>

<https://browsergate.eu/>

	▲	dominotw an hour ago \| parent [-]
		that has nothing to do with linkein shadowbanning jobseekers.

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neilv 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

If that were true, wouldn't shadowbanning a worker, who entrusted the monopoly to be matched with job market opportunities, be arguable grounds for a lawsuit for great economic/existential harm?

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ea016 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Instead of this I use Leechblock to cut the /feed access after 2 minutes, to prevent doomscrolling (no DOM change)

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i_idiot 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Please add any disclosures.

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c_e 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I don't work for linkedin and never have. I wrote myself a greasemonkey script with a similar purpose a while ago & learned about this while trying to research if I would be violating linkedin's ToS by sharing it. Anecdotally, the amount of recruiter spam I had in my inbox went from one or two per day to almost none while I was using said script.

	▲	dominotw an hour ago \| parent [-]
		so you were presenting some of your theories as facts in your comment? maybe change the wording so as not to mislead ppl. I used a script like OP for many years and was never search banned from job search. recuriter spam has nothing to do with shadowbanning. it ebbs and flows.

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dominotw an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Flagged for obvious BS with no factual basis.

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sieabahlpark 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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