As I’ve written earlier, I’m going more and more away from LinkedIn (like here and here). During my #unplugTrump activity, I decided that I want to go a step further and remove all my content (posts, answers, likes) from LinkedIn. On Mastodon, I have auto-delete activated already for various reasons. Now I wanted to clean up LinkedIn, too!
Solution: Luckily, this was easier than a couple of years ago when I cleaned up my Twitter account! This time, I quickly found some JavaScript-Code on Github which worked really well: GitHub – onceiwasadev/delete-linkedin-activity
Caveat: Some of the comments/answers I had to delete manually as I first had to expand the according posts that I commented. But as I – once in a while – deleted contents anyways, this was done rather quickly. The bigger issue were the Likes! The script DOES work well. Sometimes LinkedIn just didn’t show any more likes. I then increased the sleep(5) in L.81 to 30s or just paused a while until I started the script again. A bit annoying, but after a couple of delete-sessions, all the Likes were gone, too.
Of course, I cannot be sure that the content is just maked as deleted and used internally. But I have reduced up my digital footprint once again and I don’t feed another company with my content any more.