Let's put this into context. It looks like LinkedIn is trying to detect specific plugins which affect the page/UX. The plugins the author links to are for scraping personal emails for email marketing "leads." This is totally common, so I'm not making any kind of judgement here, but I think LinkedIn has a right to protect its service and users. I can imagine the support requests that happen where the LinkedIn the person is seeing isn't the same as LinkedIn would be pretty confusing. Not all people are smart enough to know what all their extensions do, especially if they use them for their job and were told to install and use them.
With all that said, I also think people have a right to use the extensions they want to scrape or block content on sites they visit, so catch 22 I guess.
It's worth thinking of this from both angles before getting angry at LinkedIn, or the author of this post :)
With all that said, I also think people have a right to use the extensions they want to scrape or block content on sites they visit, so catch 22 I guess.
It's worth thinking of this from both angles before getting angry at LinkedIn, or the author of this post :)