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Over-the-Shoulder Privacy while browsing LinkedIn

• About
• Installing
• Privacy Policy
• How to Use
  • Getting Started
  • Advanced Features

About

This extension can make your name and photos on the LinkedIn web site hard for people to read over your shoulder or in screenshots.

• Worried about browsing LinkedIn in public places because your name and photo can be seen by passers by?
• Worried about publicly sharing screenshots of your LinkedIn browsing experience because your name and photo are likely to appear?

With Over-the-Shoulder Privacy for LinkedIn, you can blur a number of pieces of information about you such as your name an photos wherever they appear in your browser on the LinkedIn web site. People reading over your shoulder or viewing your screenshots won't easily read your name or photos if they happen to be on screen.

Information about you that can be automatically detected and obscured:

• Your full name
• Your profile photos
• Your profile background image
• Your occupation
• Your company name

Installing

Download this extension from the Chome Web Store.

Privacy Policy

Available here, or by clicking "🔏 Privacy Policy" in the extension's navbar.

How to Use

Getting Started

After you install this extension:

1. Browse to any LinkedIn page where your name and photo appear, such as your feed or your profile page.
2. Open the extension's ⚙️ Settings page. Take notice of the checkboxes at the bottom. Each one corresponds to a type of information that LinkedIn knows about you and can display on its web pages. On the right end of each checkbox label is a preview of the information they represent.
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3. On the LinkedIn web site, take notice of where your name and photo appears. In the extension's ⚙️ Settings page, check and uncheck the boxes that correspond to your name and profile photo. Notice how your name and photo in the LinkedIn web site become visually obscured or not obscured in reaction to your actions.
4. Try the other checkboxes to see how they obscure or reveal other pieces of information about you that LinkedIn shows on its web site.

Advanced Features

The extension can appear in a side panel instead of a popup.

Having the extension appear in a side panel might be more convenient than a popup because the side panel remains visible while browsing LinkedIn until you explicitly close it.

1. Open the extension's context menu by right-clicking it in the browser's toolbar.
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2. In the context menu, choose "Open as a side panel".
3. Now, the next time you left-click the extension's icon in the browser's toolbar, the ⚙️ Settings page will appear in a side panel instead of a popup window.
4. To return to the popup behavior, open the context menu again and then choose "Open as a popup".

The extension can appear in its own tab instead of a popup.

Having the extension appear in its own tab might be more convenient than a popup or side panel because you can move a tab into its own browser window anywhere on your screen instead of leaving it attached to the same browser window where you browse LinkedIn.

1. Open the extension's context menu by right-clicking it in the browser's toolbar.
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2. In the context menu, choose "Options".

You can review (and delete) the data that this extension collects.

1. Open the extension's ⚙️ Settings page.
2. Choose "ℹ️ Your Data" from the navbar.
   
3. From there, you can
   • Press the 🔥 Delete It button to erase the data that this extension has cached.
   • Press the 📋 Copy It to the clipboard as JSON button to copy that data to the clipboard so that you can make a copy of the data or review it in your favorite text editor or JSON editor.
   • Visit the 🔏 Privacy Policy to find instructions for how to review or delete this information using the browser's own features for managing the data that an extension stores.