[illwrks]

You can guaranteed that this is a data protection and anti-scraping measure. I used to work with some recruiters and there are several third party recruiter tools that scrape linked in data to the third party sites database under the guise of supporting recruiters. I would rather this than having my LinkedIn data siphoned off other parts of the internet for god know what purpose.

[LtWorf]

So if the same exact action is done paying a fee to linkedin it is then ok?

[illwrks]

LinkedIn is in a different category than your standard website or social site due to the amount of PII. I'm not saying it's right to scan your environment, but as someone with a LinkedIn account I would prefer they tried to protect my data than be lazy about it. You have more to worry about from Adobe's online tracking than LinkedIn checking your installed extension for scrapers.