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Afaik, archive.md / archive.today used to work but now it doesn't.
Even when browsing while signed in, linkedin will notify them about any person who viewed their profile. I know one can turn on anonymous mode, but still it will notify them.
Does anyone know a way to browse this website without being logged in ?
OP, this is a hassle in the OSINT community because LinkedIn, owned by Microsoft, uses CLEAR and Persona to do ID and facial recognition verification.
Two methods:
Method 1)
First, get a burner smartphone and a Mint Mobile SIM.
Use that and sign up for a new GMail or Yahoo account under the name of a fake generic name like Angela Davis.
Wait at least 30 days. Use the Gmail amount sparingly, but sign up for a few things like TikToc or Snapchat but don't do too much. Email account must be aged.
After 30 days, find an online Gen AI image platform that uses Flux or SDXL. Generate several images using the same highly detailed description of a person with the same seed number. Make sure they look similar enough that the seem to be the same person. You want a profile image in professional dress, a casual dress image holding something, and a harsh lighting ID style passport photo.
Create a plausible resume in a PDF or Word doc, and edit meta data to match the name of your fake person. Ensure they work at a real and very large company, like Walmart, and attended a very large college.
Sign up for a LinkedIn account. When signing up, add a profile pic and upload resume to populate data. Once the account is done, log out and don't touch it again for at least 30 days.
After 30 days, log in. Poke around, don't do much, don't try and make friends. Wait another 2 weeks.
After the additional 2 weeks, log in again and try and connect with 2-3 people from the large company or college that street open to connect. Try and connect by searching for emails, not names. Job recruiters are also usually a good starting point for a few easy connections.
You may have dodged the CLEAR verification at this point, but likely not. Photoshop a state ID image of your fake profile plus ID photo together, and then a selfie image holding the ID, and save them. Update image metadata to show the image was created on a phone 2 min before you upload it. Make sure the state matches your resume's address and IP address you're using to when you log in.
Log out, and give it a week or two again to see if they accepted your images. If so, at this point, start trying to connect to a few people at a time, no more than 5 a day, 3 days a week. In another month or so, you can use the account regularly and try to get within 3 degrees of a connection from your target.
Method 2)
Risk buying 10 aged LinkedIn accounts from scammers online and hope that one works, and is old enough to not hit the CLEAR check threshold. Leave the profile as you bought it -don't edit anything!- and try connecting to people to get your target within 3 degrees.
If either of these sound insane, it's because that's our future, people. It's insane already and you just haven't been exposed to it.
That's one elaborative answer. Thank you for typing this all out. It sounds like a pain, but I think it's worth doing.
All that waiting period to get verified s crazy. Furthermore to view some profiles we need to be in their networking list ? that's even crazier.
It sounds like a pain, but I think it's worth doing.
Or what about just, you know, avoiding any kind of thing that requires a LinkedIn account?
It depends on their settings, but some people limit connections to friends and their friends' connections, so I think it's 3 degrees is the usual setting, bit can be set to 2 degrees.
I'm currently employed but I'm gonna try this because it sounds fun.
You can set yourself anonymous on your account but then they also don't allow you to see who visits you. Bit of bullshit I guess.
I turned that on long ago
However i never check LI anymore
I would not want to go look at someones profile if the thought that they knew I did was such an issue.
I used to use it when confirming contact names and positions for people who requested work from our company.
But all I want is to see Joe Bloggs (ah yes, he spells it with two Gs) works at Widget Co, and they are indeed the technical manager. I'm not there to make friends or recruit people so I don't want them seeing I'm looking them up.
I mean its creepy as hell. Its like verifying their address by peaking in the window rather than knocking on the door or their phone number by tapping the line rather than calling them up. If you want to confirm something why is it bad they know you looked at their linkedin? You don't have to add them to your network and most free accounts don't generally see how looks at them anyway.
You think a public LinkedIn profile - full of information curated and posted by the user with the full intention that it be seen by the public - is the equivalent of a private residence and personal phone line?
you think a private residence with a front door that can be knocked on and is visible from the public way is completely private? My analogy stands. window peeping and phone tapping. If you are to afraid to let them know you are checking them out then don't check them out.
You analogy is terrible.
A better one is handing out business cards everywhere you go but then expecting to know who looked at them and when.
Are you in marketing? This smacks of tracking links on emails so you can start ringing any customer who clicked on your spam because now they're a "lead".
I don't hand out bussiness cards to folks I don't know and I don't add people to my network I have not done bussiness with. I do not send people to my linkedin site or email for them to go see it. I mean in the end I don't care who sees my profile but if someon is trying to peek without beeing seen peeking then they are like someone who peeks and tries not to be seen peaking.
This is absolutely fascinating to me... That someone would go out of their way to make a public profile for people to view, but then expect to be notified whenever someone views it.
What's your goal with knowing who looked? Is it so you can return the favour and if it's a profile you find attractive start hitting them up for drinks after work? If it's a more powerful person in your industry, to start weaseling an invite to the exclusive country club they are part of? To see if it's some rube you can sell a box of widgets to? To climb the corporate ladder by mimicking their achievements?
FYI I just looked at your Lemmy profile. And I reckon I might do it again in a moment. Probably even take a screenshot... for later.
So actually im not sure why the OP is worried about it as it is a premium feature but they do pepper you with emails to try it out. I never bothered. But the whole trying to but don't want to be seen is what screams creepazoid to me. If I could I would love the list of folks looking and trying not to be seen as those are ones I would want to know about to avoid. Its like I hang around nude at home. Generically I don't care if someone were to see me but if someone was making a point to go by and see me without my notice that would wierd me out.