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How do you opt your LinkedIn or other personal info out?


Send an email to the support email at the bottom of the page.

Like Google, all the data here is from public sources - we're just indexing it.


Are people on LinkedIn with profiles set to private indexed?


We don't scrape LinkedIn.

We use some basic tools to infer the LinkedIn profile link for each person's page (e.g. [1]), but we don't actually scrape linkedin.

[1] https://usefind.ai/companies/contraption-company/people/phil...


> we don't actually scrape linkedin

LinkedIn intentionally made it basically impossible to do so after they lost hiQ Labs v. LinkedIn [0], so this is generally a good assumption for any product.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HiQ_Labs_v._LinkedIn


Can you please elaborate on this? If you don't scrape LI, where do the profile details come from (once you inferred the URL)? Is this publicly available data that can be bought as a bundle? Or is there any LI API that allows you to retrieve the profiles? thanks!


You are using data from that LinkedIn leak from a while ago?


No




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