LinkedIn may use your name, photo in social advertising. Here’s how to opt out.
LinkedIn have rolled out a new line of advertisements in which their customers’ faces are used to advertise their sponsors’ products. Helpfully, LinkedIn have decided to opt all their users into this. Here’s a guide to keeping yourself from being an unpaid shill by opting out again.
- 1. Click on your name on your LinkedIn homepage (upper right corner). On the drop-down menu, select “Settings”.
- From the “Settings” page, select “Account”.
- In the column next to “Account”, click “Manage Social Advertising” .
- De-select the box next to “LinkedIn may use my name, photo in social advertising” .
Some other helpful boxes you may want to uncheck:
- Settings > Account > Turn on/off enhanced advertising
- Settings > Email Preferences > Turn on/off partner InMail
- Settings > Email Preferences > Turn on/off invitations to participate in research
- Settings > Email Preferences > Turn on/off LinkedIn announcements
- Settings > Groups, Companies & Applications > Turn on/off data sharing with 3rd party applications
Lastly, there is a feedback link at the bottom of the right column where you can tell LinkedIn what you think of their helpfulness.