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I've also noticed that Linkedin profile scraping has become more prevalent over the years. I've countered this by adding a few fake skills to my profile.

> "With your underwater basket-weaving chops, the <redacted> team will surpass its goal of exceeding 100M users by 2015."

These, usually more subtle markers, are helpful to scan for when glancing through any recruiter emails.



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