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I am really in two minds about Linkedin, I cancelled my account years ago after getting spammed by recruiters, this could be an attempt to clean up but looking quite sinister in the attempt

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Linkedin has been an issue for years for me, because they simply disclosed your email to anyone connected. This enables some people and/or corporations to scrap profiles and build spam email databases. After being annoyed about this, I started to change my linkedin dedicated email address frequently, 4-5 times a year. The conclusion was obvious: less than a few days after the change, I began receiving spam and proposals on this new dedicated email address, thus confirming the email scraping problem.

Yesterday I went back to Linkedin to reconfigure a new email address, and found that the account settings now incorporate a setting to hide your email address to anyone (inactive by default...). I've enabled it and changed again to a new dedicated email address, to see if it is true. I hope this time Linkedin did things right.

Maybe I should try again, I am not looking to hire or be hired so not really sure if there is a point anymore

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