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williamscales · 2017-11-17 05:08:30

I wonder if this has changed in light of the recent LinkedIn decision?

philipodonnell | karma 1487 | avg karma 2.58 · | 2018-01-14 23:07:58+00:00

I still hear a lot of complaints about this, has there been any confirmation that LinkedIn changed anything at all?

DGAP | karma 450 | avg karma 3.95 · | 2017-05-15 01:40:51+00:00

I believe it's the same for LinkedIn.

wodenokoto | karma 15554 | avg karma 2.59 · | 2019-04-03 07:27:10+00:00

Yes. Linkedin was quite agressive about it back in the days.

siddharth4137 | karma 1 | avg karma 0.2 · | 2013-04-02 21:48:13+00:00

How is this going to affect LinkedIn? What do you think of it?

shahocean | karma 1749 | avg karma 7.17 · | 2015-04-09 16:32:37+00:00

What can be LinkedIn's take on this?

danyork | karma 2534 | avg karma 3.18 · | 2019-04-16 11:14:56+00:00

Is there a specific article or announcement about this? The link just takes me to LinkedIn's main page.

int_19h | karma 21203 | avg karma 1.69 · | 2023-01-04 14:29:45

It wasn't changed, it's just that there's more than one issue at hand: the earlier decision was that hiQ didn't violate CFAA, the later one was that it did violate LinkedIn's EULA. The November 2022 ruling specifically states that hiQ "accepted LinkedIn’s User Agreement in running advertising and signing up for LinkedIn subscriptions" - keep in mind that LinkedIn profiles haven't been public for a while in a sense that logging in is required to view them, and thus to scrape them.

Hence why OP is saying that this all will lead to increase in paywalls and such, and a reduction in truly public content.

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chadillac | karma 329 | avg karma 3.19 · | 2014-03-31 23:38:02+00:00

Based on LinkedIn's response... probably.

epberry | karma 1242 | avg karma 2.94 · | 2022-01-14 07:24:51

Yes, according to LinkedIn

wslh | karma 32011 | avg karma 2.64 · | 2012-10-15 21:04:23+00:00

Source: LinkedIn update.

peteretep | karma 19492 | avg karma 3.65 · | 2019-01-08 09:02:47+00:00

No, they're trying to protect their LinkedIn Recruiter license revenue.

durnygbur | karma 1385 | avg karma 1.66 · | 2022-12-08 01:17:24

no, linkedin hasn't

fomine3 | karma 4883 | avg karma 0.96 · | 2021-11-04 00:04:42

Maybe. Another case is LinkedIn.

saurik | karma 31936 | avg karma 4.3 · | 2022-03-31 12:23:51

AFAIK the latest status of the LinkedIn case is still inclusive (due to the Supreme Court stepping in).

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/supreme-court-scra...

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callesgg | karma 1359 | avg karma 1.35 · | 2014-02-21 09:26:18+00:00

Not exactly news that linkedin does this...

booleandilemma | karma 6429 | avg karma 3.09 · | 2018-11-10 00:43:42+00:00

Will LinkedIn follow, I wonder?

simonw | karma 58201 | avg karma 7.31 · | 2012-05-16 02:32:35

LinkedIn still does, which makes me a bit nervous about surfing around on LinkedIn.

swiley | karma 10155 | avg karma 1.92 · | 2021-05-02 23:01:01

I completely stopped using linkedin once I realized they were doing this. I don't think my career has suffered.

code-is-code | karma 136 | avg karma 2.31 · | 2019-11-24 20:14:13

Same for LinkedIn