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		EvanAnderson on Oct 23, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: LinkedIn Intro: Doing the Impossible on iOS If LinkedIn changes their User-Agent string then they're right back in again.

j_s on Oct 24, 2013 [–]

Fortunately the technical details of how to determine the user agent to block are included, along with a reference to LinkedIn's own support explaining that 'LinkedInEWS' is the value to add to the blocklist!

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