They did the same shit to me. I refused and pestered them with numerous e-mails demanding them to just delete my account instead of reopening it. Finding a link to their contact form was a nightmare (it's hidden all the way at the bottom of their privacy policy). I also emailed legal@linkedin.com, dpo@linkedin.com, helpdesk@linkedin.com, support@linkedin.com and a number of other generic addresses just to be sure they would receive something.

I got three LLM sounding replies where they asked me to follow a link to verify my identity with a government issued identity document, but after a couple more e-mails where I wrote that providing Persona or LinkedIn with my identity documents is against my personal security policy, they just caved and reopened my account calling it a "temporary measure to protect my account". Set a new password, logged in and deleted my account immediately. Good riddance.

You have the option to stop using LinkedIn altogether.

There was a time when it was useful, then it started harvesting data and accessing your contacts without your permission, then Microsoft bought it, then it became an influencer swamp, then it demanded that you turn off 50+ individual permissions hidden away in a deep preferences hierarchy, then it opted you in to feed the Assumed Intelligence black hole, which is where I opted out and stopped using it.

Job search has always been a joke, recommendations absurd, direct applications ignored and non-existent filters to make job search relevant.

In other words, do yourself a favour and leave.

Conclusion: Linkedin is malware.

And nothing of value was lost.

I guess I can understand some people rely on it for work (I have yet to meet anyone who actually got a job through it tho).

But aside from that, what are you missing out on?

A bunch of people pretending to be edgy by bending over for corporate life. “Please steal more of my private time mister capitalism sir”. (Not to mention the data mining)

You don’t wanna be part of that. Have a job and excell at it, but don’t do the whole “can I have another lemon please?” thing. That’s disgusting.

FWIW. I have defeated live cam with subtle random movement with an AI generated face video looking straight ahead with slight movement, blinking, slightly wider shot (wider shot mean angles aren’t as obvious and a little random movement was sufficient).

I served this back through OBS (Open Broadcast Studio).

But it’s fucked that we need to resort to tricks.

I'm running into the ID verification problem too! I uninstalled the app and when I reinstalled, I couldn't find my 2FA code in Microsoft Authenticator. Now I need to submit my government ID and do the face scan stuff.

I'm very much against all the ID verification stuff as of late, for the same reason you state.. I asked a friend to give me a PDF export of my profile and I'll maybe come back when the ID verification requirement changes.

They did you a favor. Stop using that crap.

Can we all just agree to adopt a new open source option? That is the only way companies will find us for next jobs. They unfortunately contacted me using LinkedIn in my last 2 jobs so, it is impractical to leave without having a replacement.

Same bullshit happened to me when they froze my account after their AI bot flagged me with on false positive for "discrimination" (I'd posted a job with a legitimate language requirement).

They then made me go through some humiliating ritual of having to write them an email with a written promise that I wouldn't break any discrimination rules, which I hadn't done to begin with, but the support clown wouldn't reinstate my account until I'd done their specified grovelling.

Why would anyone want back in? Linkedin is a data harvesting tool disguised as a business site that acts like Facebook.

I was already pretty low in my estimation of LinkedIn, but this post gave me a little push to decide to close the account.

Which country should I change my location to, which provides the best consumer protection and doesn't allow companies to demand my KYC documents?

They accept written/scanned proof of identity signed by a municipal office (german here). Basically, show your ID to an official and haven them sign a paper to proof your identity. Also, a friend told me, a LinkedIn Support Member may neither have capacity nor skill to validate a foreign documents authenticity.

This is what laws forbidding the youth from social media gets you. How many of you supported these laws based on the cynical arguments of tech and government that want to lock down the internet?

Same thing for me in the US. They just didn’t provide a reason and their Tech Support will not respond.