On the evening of November 17, 2016, many Russian LinkedIn.com users suddenly lost access to their favorite social network, and instead of the usual profile of their page, a message was displayed that the specified site was unavailable. Later, access to LinkedIn was blocked throughout Russia, while many people did not even have time to save important information from a profile used for years. Nowadays, the LinkedIn blocking still continues, forcing LinkedIn account owners to look for ways to bypass it. In this article I will tell you why the social network for business contacts was blocked, and how to bypass the LinkedIn block in Russia.

As you know, in Russia there is a law on personal data from 2006, the text of which has been amended in recent years. Based on this law, Roskomnadzor turned to the social network LinkedIn (location of the central server - Mountain View city, Colorado, USA), with the requirement to transfer the servers of this social network with the data of Russian users stored on them (more than 5 million users) to the territory RF, as well as to prevent the transfer of this data to third parties.

This precedent became a direct warning to other major players in this segment (in particular, Facebook), which, according to Western experts, Roskomnadzor will turn its attention to in the future (Facebook servers with data from Russian-speaking users are also not located in Russia). Also, a number of Western analysts believe that the transfer of the company’s servers to Russia required by Roskomnadzor could facilitate access to user data for domestic intelligence services.

LinkedIn is now blocked in Russia

How to Login to LinkedIn After Blocking

As you know, LinkedIn is not the first site blocked by Roskomnadzor. Previously, the list of prohibited sites included resources promoting terrorism, gaming and pirate sites, and many others. However, users find ways to bypass linkedin blocking, and in this article I will tell you more about them.

Method number 1. Opera Turbo and VPN

The most in a simple way, allowing you to log into linkedin after blocking is to use the built-in capabilities of the Opera browser. This browser not only has a “Turbo” mode, which allows you to compress data and transmit it through a proxy server, but also boasts built-in support for VPN (“virtual private networks”), which allows you to bypass the blocking of various sites.

To activate these functions, simply open the Opera browser settings, enable the “Opera turbo” mode, and also check the “Enable VPN” function.

Method No. 2. Browser extensions

There are several browser extensions that use proxies to bypass linkedin blocking. In particular, we can note such extensions as:

Method No. 3. Tor Browser

The disadvantages of Tor include slowness, which is unusual for many. However, sometimes you can wait to gain access to your favorite site.

Method No. 4. TunnelBear service

After installing the TunnelBear program, all your traffic will pass through the VPN server, thereby giving you access to LinkedIn. The program has both stationary and mobile version, allowing you to bypass LinkedIn blocking.

Use TunnerBear to Access LinkedIn

Method No. 5. Anonymizers

Anonymizer sites work as follows: you go to the anonymizer, enter the address of an Internet resource, the anonymizer accesses this resource on its own behalf, downloads desired page, and then forwards it to you. Since users use foreign anonymizers (Hidemyass, Zalmos, Hideme and others), such anonymizers have no problems when working with LinkedIn.

Anonymizer "Zalmos"

At the same time, Roskomnadzor has already threatened anonymizers with blocking for providing access to sites banned in Russia. But this is unlikely to scare well-known international projects.

Method number 6. Kuku.io resource

The kuku.io resource is a tool for working with several social networks at once, allowing you to publish the same post in several networks simultaneously with just one click. Among the possibilities we are interested in is bypassing LinkedIn blocking, in which the specified resource allows you to post and read comments.

Method No. 7. Mobile platforms

To open LinkedIn on mobile gadgets, you can use the programs “Browsec VPN” (iOS), “Onion browser” (iOS), “Orfox: Tor Browser for Android” (Android) and other analogues.

You can also use the traffic compression function in your mobile browser ( mobile browsers“Opera”, “Chrome”, “UC Browser”), which will automatically redirect your connection through a proxy server, allowing you to safely access LinkedIn.

"Orfox: Tor Browser for Android" makes it easy to bypass resource blocking

Conclusion

In this article, I looked at how to bypass LinkedIn blocking, and what tools will help us with this. The easiest way is to activate the VPN functionality in the Opera browser, as well as use many proxy extensions for your browser that allow you to automatic mode bypass blocking of your favorite site. Use the functionality of the tools I described and you will forget about various manifestations of censorship on the Internet.

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Over the past two years, a huge number of useful sites have been blocked, and in the case of LinkedIn, it’s difficult to come to terms with this. After all, the site’s network covers more than five million Russian citizens. Since November 2016, LinkedIn has been included in the register of prohibited sites. But those people who have years of work left in the network have to bypass the blocking. Let's consider two effective methods.

How to log into Linkedin after blocking - anonymizers

This online services, which provide you with another country's IP. Most often, working with them is very simple: you insert a link to the site into a special field and continue working with it directly in the anonymizer window. Let's consider one of the most popular sites for the anonymity of your visit: 2IP. Go to this page and follow the instructions:

• in the URL field, enter the site address, in this case it is https://www.linkedin.com,

• then you have to choose the country whose IP you will hide behind, for example, the USA,
• please note, there will be several options for the same country in the list, try any one, if it doesn’t work, select the next one,

• click on the “Open” button. will appear in front of you home page LinkedIn website, and at the top there will be an anonymizer panel. On it you can turn on or off the display of pictures, clear cookies and much more.

Unfortunately, the disadvantages include English language anonymizer, since many sites for anonymous browsing are currently blocked, there is nothing left to do but use English-language ones.

Also, your connection will be somewhat slower than usual, because you are not just loading the linkedin site, but also waiting for the anonymizer to respond.

This is where the disadvantages of this method end. If you need to visit linkedin often, then this option not the best, there is a slightly faster way. Proceed to the next step.

How to log into Linkedin after blocking - VPN add-ons

These programs need to be downloaded or added to extensions for your browser, there are a lot of them in different assemblies, let’s look at an example “ Free VPN- Hola." The Hola add-on has become widespread after the blocking, although there are still a few useful functions. First, install the extension specifically for your browser: Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Opera. All links lead to the official website of your add-ons.

• Install the browser add-on.
• Make sure the orange add-on icon is enabled.
• Visit LinkedIn.
• Open the Hola menu by left-clicking on it.
• Select the checkbox of any country from which you want to view the site.

• Wait a few seconds.
• Access is open.

At your discretion, you can choose any VPN add-on. Just go to your browser add-ons and enter “VPN” in the search bar, then select a more suitable option.

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On November 10, the Moscow City Court approved Roskomnadzor’s request to block the social network LinkedIn in Russia. Internet operators set restrictions on access to LinkedIn very quickly, which is why many Russian users service did not have time to save their data or finish important correspondence. In this guide, we talked about how to bypass LinkedIn blocking on various platforms to save data to which access has been restricted.

How to Bypass LinkedIn Blocking in Chrome

LinkedIn took care of providing access to the social network to browser users Google Chrome. Especially for him, they developed an extension with the self-explanatory name “Access to LinkedIn”.

All that is required to access a blocked LinkedIn site is to install and activate the extension. Installation is performed in the Chrome Web Store (the extension is free). Activation is by clicking on the extension icon in the extensions panel in Chrome.

How to Bypass LinkedIn Blocking in Safari on Mac

In Safari on Mac, you can bypass LinkedIn blocking using the TunnelBear utility. This is a shareware VPN service that allows you to redirect all computer traffic through other countries. For each account TunnelBear provides 500 MB free traffic, which is quite enough to work with blocked LinkedIn.

To activate TunnelBear, you must install the application and enable traffic redirection in the utility window in the top menu.

How to Bypass LinkedIn Blocking on iPhone and iPad

The TunnelBear app is also available on iPhone and iPad, but App Store There are better proposals. For example, the Opera VPN application, which works by redirecting traffic in a similar way. Plus Opera VPN is that the service is completely free and easy to use.

To activate the VPN, just launch the Opera VPN application and turn on the “Opera VPN” switch (you can also select the country). Successful activation will be indicated by the “VPN” icon in the status bar. You can then go to the LinkedIn website directly through Safari or any other web browser.

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What social network LinkedIn may be blocked in Russia. The Tagansky court decided to restrict access to the site at the request of Roskomnadzor back in August; On November 10, the Moscow City Court will consider an appeal against this decision. If it is not satisfied, LinkedIn will become the first Western social network to be banned in the Russian Federation. Meduza figured out what law the world’s largest network of business contacts violated and what the risk of blocking it in Russia is.

Why does Roskomnadzor want to block LinkedIn?

The supervisory authority accuses the social network of violating the Law on Personal Data. In accordance with the amendments adopted in September 2015, all foreign companies working with personal data must move servers to Russian territory so that the data of Russians is not stored outside the country. It was originally planned that the amendments would come into force on September 1, 2016, but later the State Duma settled on the date September 1, 2015.

On October 26, 2016, Roskomnadzor press secretary Vadim Ampelonsky said that the claims against LinkedIn were related to leaks of user data (in 2012, 117 million passwords of social network users were stolen; on October 19, 2016, a Russian hacker was suspected of this in Prague). “This summer we sent them two pre-trial letters asking them to provide information about their implementation of the law on the localization of personal data on the territory of the Russian Federation,” Ampelonsky said. According to him, LinkedIn responded to the letters with “unsubscribes.”

LinkedIn, if blocked, may become the first social network banned in the Russian Federation in connection with the Law “On Personal Data”. However, LinkedIn is not the only foreign company that has not complied with the requirements of the law. Facebook and Twitter also did not move their servers to Russian territory. But in October 2015, the popular Viber messenger did this.

Who will suffer if LinkedIn is blocked?

LinkedIn is a social network for business communication and job search. To register on LinkedIn, you need to post a resume on it, which then goes into the general database. The author of the resume can be contacted by companies or other users.

In total, more than 433 million people are registered on LinkedIn; six million are from Russia. Leading consultant at the HR company Spice IT Recruitment, Mark Kandaurov, in an interview with Meduza, explained that LinkedIn is used by almost all recruiters and HR specialists in Russia. According to him, most often specialists from development, engineering (oil industry), IT specialists, employees of auditing and financial companies post their resumes on LinkedIn. According to Kandaurov, these are mainly people from large cities - Moscow, St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk. They are focused not only on the Russian, but also on the international market.

The closest alternatives to LinkedIn are Facebook and the website hh.ru, but on Facebook profiles are usually not filled out enough, and on hh.ru there are resumes only of those who are actively looking for work. “I don’t think that blocking will be a death blow for LinkedIn, especially since there are quite a few ways to bypass it. Restricting access may affect new users’ access to the site, but the people we need are already there,” Kandaurov told Meduza.

How can I bypass the blocking? Is this even legal?

If the LinkedIn website is still blocked, you will not be able to access it in the usual way using a regular Internet browser. As for the LinkedIn application, from the AppStore or Google Play it, of course, will not disappear, but whether it will work on Russian territory is not known for sure.

Meduza has already told you how to bypass blocking. Roskomnadzor press secretary Vadim Ampelonsky said in January 2016 that it is “not illegal” to use such blocking bypasses: “We are calm about the fact that users use VPNs, proxy servers, anonymizers, and so on.”

What do they say about blocking on LinkedIn?

“We are in contact with representatives of Roskomnadzor on data localization issues, but currently The meeting time for discussion has not been determined. Until this moment, we cannot comment on the lawsuit,” LinkedIn’s press service told Meduza. The Russian representative office of Microsoft (the company is trying to complete the deal to acquire LinkedIn for $26 billion, but it was suspended by European antitrust regulators) refused to comment on the situation.

Sasha Sulim