- I didn't remember my password offhand, so each of my 5 attempts required me to fill out a captcha.
- On the settings page, the "Account" link is... less than visible. The word "Account" appears ~4 times on the page. One of them was a link entitled "Manage Account Settings", which you'd think would be it, but no --- that led to a FAQ.
This was done without my knowledge or consent. Not that I can do anything but post an HN comment, though...
You then move them way down in your list of admired companies and actively badmouth them whenever it's appropriate - with the long term goal that this information will spread, hopefully ruining the value of being on the network to the point where it is no longer a useful resource and THEN delete your profile.
That's what I'm going to do.
However, LinkedIn contains a great deal of discovery and connection with people you don't know- if you removed your work history etc. then the site isn't going to be as much use to you. It isn't anywhere near as easy.
I registered a new email at a disposable email address and set that as my main email while deleting the rest.
After that I changed some keydata in my profile to things that are incorrect and waved goodbye linkedin.