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> I’m fine with my profile being public — in fact, I want it to be — but I don’t want my data to be vacuumed up and weaponized against me.

LinkedIn is a authwalled garden only available to those with accounts. "We may or may not have a Jake Lazaroff. Who's asking?".

Sounds like you need a personal website.



When most people say they want things to be public, they typically mean "accessible to those who have a legitimate reason to access it, which may include some people I have not explicitly authorized."

Also LinkedIn does have public profile settings which allow some or all of your profile to be visible without an account.

https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/83/linkedin-pu...




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