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prawks on Nov 4, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: My First Job: Fired and Rehired on Day 1

I don't believe private browsing masks your IP, and I'm not sure it changes your user agent either. It's very likely LinkedIn can still track your activity if you're browsing in a Private tab.

icebraining on Nov 4, 2013 [–]

Even if they track, they're not going to report it.

yebyen on Nov 4, 2013 | [–]

LinkedIn was on HackerNews for doing _just that_ a few weeks ago. That is, associating your IP address with your identity and tracking whose profile you clicked (to report back to them) even when you're not logged in.

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