[Dayshine]

I use LinkedIn for two reasons:

1. So that other humans can use it in a personal capacity to find out about me.

2. As a way of boxing all recruiter spam into a single location.

The LinkedIn terms and conditions restrict usage of my data to those purposes. That's why I'm comfortable publishing my data there.

Having my personal data indexed by Google makes it easier for people to accomplish (1) and the copyright restrictions on that data result in (2).

To those saying that scraping of all "public" data should be unrestricted: how would you suggest I meet my above goals?

[Nextgrid]

If you don’t provide contact details besides a LinkedIn account then they can’t spam you anywhere else even if they got the data from scraping.

Obviously if you make your email public then all bets are off.