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> This is LinkedIn's anti-scraping team at work, and nothing nefarious is going on.

Are you a primary source or do you have a source to cite?



Primary source. I used to work at LinkedIn.

This would be the application security team's work. They have a pretty extensive anti-scraping initiative and I know for a fact that these are used to determine if the account is scraping or not.

Someone on a different comment mentioned the "email-hunter" extension. That's exactly the kind of extension they are targeting. I remember many requests sent to support, asking why their account is terminated, and the response was usually "oh you used email-hunter" etc.




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