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by bigredtech 3906 days ago
While doing this for your own profile could be useful for you and some metrics you may want, someone else could be a bit more nefarious.

On a high profile/traffic blog, web app, or site - could just include some targeted, random, or interesting LinkedIn profiles, and then all of these people would be bombarded with misinformation about who's viewed their page.

Want to confuse sales team at XYZ Startup Corp., sure have all of their profile links in hidden IFrames too...

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If all you need to get onto the list is a request to the profile page URL, even a simple image link in a forum signature/profile image/etc. might be enough...
Hmm so you could then see everyone who loaded that page/comment?

This has probably already been an exploit used by some people..