Comment by georgecmu

5 months ago

PSA: If you are logged in to LinkedIn, then clicking on a LinkedIn profile registers your visit with the owner -- it's a great way for someone to harvest new people to target.

On another note, what's unreal about the pseudonym? It's a Ukrainian transliteration of Николай Янчий (Nikolay Yanchiy). Here's a real person with this name: https://life.ru/p/1490942

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physicsguy  5 months ago

You can change a setting so that you only show up as a view but not who you are.

  • blindriver  5 months ago

    Unless they pay for it and then they can see everyone who clicks on your profile again.

    • layman51  5 months ago

      I don't think this is accurate. I believe if you go into your privacy settings, you can put yourself into a semi-private or a private mode so that your views aren't shown even when you click to view someone who is a LinkedIn Premium member. However, the big disadvantage is that when you put yourself in a private mode, if you are a non-subscribed user, you will not have access to these analytics for your own profile at all.

      This is covered in this help article, especially the bullet points at the end[0].

      [0]: https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a568195/

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