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thinking more about, I don't think its a terrible thing that they prevent scraping. Their listings are already suffering from being flooded with garbage applications and having to sift through tons of noise. allowing scraping would just amplify that and make the platform almost entirely worthless.

I "scrape" linkedin in a roundabout way for personal use, and really what Ive found is that i should just maybee not bother at all. I can't get through the noise even when im applying at places that heavily match my skillset, and just get automated rejection emails.

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LLMs scrape Wikipedia all the time, or at least attempt to.

The data bundle doesn't help that at all.

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That's true, the normal scraping would still happen, but it would eliminate this side business of trying to re-sell LinkedIn's data.
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