LinkedIn Frequent Viewer: Premium Users Can Spot Repeat Profile Visitors

Mollion, who has nearly 79,000 followers, gets a notification every few days. She pastes the names of frequent viewers into Claude and asks it to sort them. It returns three groups: friends, people who probably want to sell her something, and business development or sales leads. She contacts the ones who aren't pitching her, and says nine times out of 10 it leads to a good conversation. One was an organizer looking for speakers for an online summit, another a podcast host.

The flip side is less fun. The tag can also reveal that a former boss or an ex is keeping tabs on you. It is triggered by someone opening your profile, not by seeing your posts in a feed or finding you in a search, so it suggests they sought you out on purpose. Mollion says LinkedIn has "definitely weirdos" and she has blocked one frequent viewer.

How do you stop showing up as a frequent viewer on LinkedIn?

Change your profile viewing options. LinkedIn offers public, semi-private (job title, industry and school but no name) and fully private modes. Go to Visibility in Settings and Privacy, then click Profile viewing options. Private mode is the way to browse in relative secrecy.