{"id":5973,"date":"2016-11-22T18:00:06","date_gmt":"2016-11-22T23:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/?p=5973"},"modified":"2016-11-23T08:51:38","modified_gmt":"2016-11-23T13:51:38","slug":"easily-stay-anonymous-linkedin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/easily-stay-anonymous-linkedin\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Easily Stay Anonymous on LinkedIn"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sometimes, you just want to remain below the radar. That isn\u2019t always easy to do when you hop onto LinkedIn<\/a>, but you know it\u2019s possible. You\u2019ve seen the grayed out icon that teased you with this statement: \u201cThis member chose to be shown as anonymous\u201d instead of showing the visitor\u2019s name.<\/p>\n

How in the world do you take a look at someone\u2019s profile without letting them know you were there? There are a couple of steps you can take to browse LinkedIn without leaving a trace. It\u2019s time to change your settings. Head to \u201cAccount and Settings,\u201d then jump down to \u201cPrivacy and Settings.\u201d Take a look at the different settings under the header \u201cPrivacy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read More: Do Social Networks Respect Your Privacy?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

From here, you can change whether or not your profile appears in search engines. Decide who you want to see your connections. Just don\u2019t forget to click the options for \u201cProfile Viewing Options.\u201d<\/p>\n

You can select what others see on your LinkedIn profile. If you don\u2019t want to provide full access, and you want to make sure that not just anyone can view your profile photo and title, then choose a different option.<\/p>\n

Opt for \u201cPrivate Profile Characteristics\u201d to include a general version of your title and location. To go completely anonymous, select \u201cPrivate Mode.\u201d Now, when anyone comes across your profile, it will read \u201cAnonymous LinkedIn Member.\u201d<\/p>\n

Just remember that picking either \u201cPrivate Profile Characteristics\u201d or \u201cPrivate Mode\u201d will disable the \u201cWho\u2019s Viewed Your Profile\u201d function. Your own viewer history will be erased.<\/p>\n

For a short term fix that won\u2019t risk losing your own LinkedIn functionality, simply log out of your LinkedIn profile. Then, do a Google search on the person whose profile you want to view, making sure to add in \u201cLinkedIn\u201d to the search term.<\/p>\n

Click on their profile and view it. Since you are logged out, your name and title will not appear in their analytics. As long as the person you want to view hasn\u2019t opted out of a publicly searchable LinkedIn profile, you can see it.<\/p>\n

Staying anonymous on LinkedIn isn\u2019t difficult \u2014 it just takes a bit of a workaround. Just remember that, when you are finished viewing profiles anonymously, you should change your own profile to public if you want others to be able to find you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You know it’s possible to browse LinkedIn anonymously, but how in the world does that work? Read on for two ways to browse through those profiles in secret.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3586,1977,218],"class_list":["post-5973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security","tag-google-search","tag-linkedin","tag-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}