I always hated LinkedIn, even back when I was in the corporate world. Apparently, there’s still good reasons to hate it!

It’s not really a secret, pretty much all social sites do this - and most sites to an extent. You know those “Adblock detected” messages you get on sites? Yeh they’re doing the same thing.

There’s nothing wrong with doing it. Unless they’re selling the data against your consent, which the authors have no evidence of, and LinkedIn deny doing so, there’s no issue here.