As recruiters we are always looking for ways to streamline and automate. Tools such as Dux Soup, LinkedHelper, MeetLeonard, Anyleads, Snov, and Lusha have catered to this need and have user numbers that reflect their growing popularity (Lusha alone has 131k users). These apps automate many of the functions of LinkedIn, from sending invites and messages, to viewing profiles and downloading contacts.

As you may have guessed, LinkedIn is not a fan of these third party apps. LinkedIn aims to be a platform that facilitates genuine person to person networking rather than becoming a medium for spam bots—and understandably so. User experience and sourcer/recruiter impact would be seriously threatened if LinkedIn inboxes started filling with spam.

With recent data privacy concerns brought on by data breaches and such, Google is taking note and will start removing many of these data-abusing Chrome extensions starting on October 15. Google’s new data policy requires that all extensions gather the least amount of personal data necessary, that they are transparent about how that data is used, and that any person data is transmitted only via encrypted network connections.

After October 15, extensions that violate this policy will be removed from the Chrome webstore and will need to become compliant to be reinstated.

Here are a list of tools that this may effect:

Noted: There’s no actual way to know the exact list made by Google or LinkedIn This list was created by a fellow Sourcer: Josef Kadlec.

Adapt Prospector
Adorito
Aevy
Alore.io
Amazinghiring
Auto Connect tools Lily
Candidate.ai
CleverStaff
Colabo extension
Contact Out
Crelate
Data Scraper
Datananas
Daxtra
Discoverly
Dux-soup(fixed)
Ebstabullhorn
EbstaSalesforce
Ecquire
eLink Pro
Email Finder
Email Hunter
Emply
Entelo
EyeMail
Found.ly
Gay2sms
Get Email
Hr-Skyen
Icebreaker
iMacros
Instant data Scraper
Jlenty
Lead Generator
Leadconnect
Leadiq
Leadkedin
Leonard for Linkedin
Linked Helper
Linkedbot
Linkedin assistant Lily
Linkedin-Hubspot Connector
Linkedroid
LinkeLead
Linklead.io
LinkMatch for CatS
LinkMatch for Greenhouse
LinkMatch for PCrecruiter
LinkMatch for Pipedrive
LinkMatch for zoho CrM
LinkMatch for zoho recruit
LinkMe tool
LinMailNavigator
LinMailPro
Loxo Social import
Lusha
Lusha (FireFox Extension)
Nimble
People.camp
Prophet
Prospect.io
ProspectHive
Prospectify
Ramper
RecruiterNerd
Sales Lead Multiplier
saleslift.io
SalesLoftCadence
SalesloftProspector
Salestools
SeekOut
SellHack
Skrapp
Slik
Snapaddy Grabber
Social2Sugar
Sourcebreaker
Sourcehub
Spider for Linkedin
StepWells(colabo)
Talentbin
TurboHiring

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