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The reason the pages are public to begin with is that Google will only scrape public pages for search indexing. LinkedIn wants to provide the pages ONLY to goog
by henryfjordan 7y ago
The reason the pages are public to begin with is that Google will only scrape public pages for search indexing. LinkedIn wants to provide the pages ONLY to google, so they tried telling hiQ to stop scraping without any physical blockers (so as to not impede google's scraper).
If LinkedIn loses this case they (and others) might try to get Google to change their policy (either use auth or some whitelisted IP addresses or something).