I almost got hacked by a 'job interview'

Re:I almost got hacked by a 'job interview' by layman51 on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @11:40PM (#45601210)

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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Re:I almost got hacked by a 'job interview' by bix6 on Thursday October 16, 2025 @12:20AM (#45601427)

Is this confirmed? I always thought premium overrode anyone’s privacy. The page doesn’t explicitly say.

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Re:I almost got hacked by a 'job interview' by Archonical on Thursday October 16, 2025 @12:30AM (#45601472)

I have premium. I can confirm this. Whatever your private browsing page shows is what I see. If you're fully private, all that registers is that someone has looked at my profile but nothing identifying, just a bump in profile views.

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Re:I almost got hacked by a 'job interview' by user_7832 on Thursday October 16, 2025 @01:07AM (#45601632)

I think what they meant is that you can't see who clicked your profile if you're browsing (semi?) anonymously unless you pay for premium.

You can browse anonymously for free.

To see all the folks who've visited your profile, you need to pay.

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Re:I almost got hacked by a 'job interview' by mkagenius on Thursday October 16, 2025 @02:46AM (#45602153)

That's not what they meant, yikes

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