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I have toggles for all of these things. In fact, you can go more granular and select whether you want current and/or past experience as well as the details or just the summaries.

On the Public Profile settings, this is all under Edit Visibility on the right side.

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I have public profile visibility set to off, have had it for years. I'm pretty sure those settings just change how you look to people who are NOT logged in.

As you found out, I dont think LinkedIn offers controls to restrict what logged in users can view.

I think they used to, but they slowly removed those privacy-respecting features when they had pressure to grow aggressively (like Facebook).

IIRC, I think it started around when they became a public company and the stock was underperforming.

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