I had a strange experience with LinkedIn today: I had to restart my computer, and when my browser started it re-opened all my tabs. This included about 50 LinkedIn tabs, which I opened sometime over the last 3 months (most of them were opened yesterday).

LinkedIn logged me out and accused me of unauthorized use or some such thing, and then locked me out for a period. When I submitted a help request and explained what had happened (browser reopened tabs), they gave a boilerplate answer that was totally non responsive.

I understand they want to defeat scrapers (whether I think they should or not), but outcomes like this are a pretty annoying way to do it. Can they really not tell when a browser is restarting and opening a bunch of tabs that the user has already viewed (and which are all 1st or 2nd degree contacts)?

edit: added context around when tabs were opened, in response to a comment.