A lot of these are used as CRM type applications where people would love it if LinkedIn just charged for access to a more comprehensive API instead. LinkedIns messaging UI sucks, and ironically one of the reasons to want to use CRMs like Nimble to interact with your LinkedIn connections is to be able to better track communication with them so you don't spam. But of course people will use it to spam too.
If LinkedIn offered API access to messaging in a way that let CRMs work with them instead of feel forced to circumvent them I think most who want to use it legitimately would be perfectly happy to have LinkedIn impose various usage limits and peotections even if paid.
They should see this as revenue potential: there are lots of potential to get companies with legitimate reasons for more integration than the current API to upsell their customers on paid LinkedIn features if they are able to offer it in an approved way, and I bet many would be happy to let LinkedIn monitor how it's used.
If they try to block access instead, they'll find more and more companies keep offering the same, but manually.
If LinkedIn offered API access to messaging in a way that let CRMs work with them instead of feel forced to circumvent them I think most who want to use it legitimately would be perfectly happy to have LinkedIn impose various usage limits and peotections even if paid.
They should see this as revenue potential: there are lots of potential to get companies with legitimate reasons for more integration than the current API to upsell their customers on paid LinkedIn features if they are able to offer it in an approved way, and I bet many would be happy to let LinkedIn monitor how it's used.
If they try to block access instead, they'll find more and more companies keep offering the same, but manually.