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by kyleee 50 days ago
And certainly fingerprint you right?
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Probably mostly for abuse prevention. Lots of extensions like this one:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/linkedin-data...

The "abuse" is that one doesn't have to copy paste for hours.
I guess that's what they're hoping for. With my admittedly biased opinion of the average linkedin user, about 99% will have the default set of extensions installed and so will not be very useful. Those users might have other identifiers of course, so who knows.
I’m pretty sure it’s not 99% you would wonder how many differences there are along with user-agent resolution and ip range...

I think 99% are identifiable

Ideally about 99% of LinkedIn users are using their professional name, occupation, and location.
Oh man time to see if there is a chrome Bonzai Buddy extension