LinkedIn's sales pitch is basically a connected professional network of people that interact with each other, topics. and companies a lot. Their second strong

LinkedIn's sales pitch is basically a connected professional network of people that interact with each other, topics. and companies a lot. Their second strong point is the fact that they have valuable data hidden in their social graph. Automating a browser to unfollow companies basically undermines both of their valuable assets, so they are not interested in making this process seamless. Good thing they are hit with lawsuits that make it a precedent to allow them to be scraped.