LinkedIn is one of the best sources of data available for B2B sellers, but the Microsoft-owned platform is known for not making money by sharing its data. Instead, it generates revenue from advertising and premium subscription services, especially those for recruiters and sales professionals.
That hasn’t kept sales engagement platforms from using Chrome extensions to help sellers generate leads by grabbing data from LinkedIn. And that appears to be against LinkedIn’s terms of service prohibiting third-party tools from scraping LinkedIn data.
Sometime on March 6, 2025, LinkedIn appeared to ban a pair of sales engagement platforms — Apollo.io and Seamless.ai — from the platform. Both companies have Chrome extensions that salespeople use to take data from LinkedIn. It’s unlikely that’s a coincidence.
In the case of Apollo.io, the company still comes up in LinkedIn search results:
But click on that View Page button, and poof! Houston, we have a problem:
Sudipto Paul has more details on the disappearance of Apollo and Seamless on G2, including a link to a LinkedIn post by Benyamin Holley with more information.
Clark Barron has a thorough analysis of the situation on LinkedIn:
This isn’t the first time LinkedIn has taken action against companies trying to get at its data. In 2022, a LinkedIn lawsuit led to the shutdown of Singapore-based company Mantheos Ptd. Ltd. LinkedIn lost a case against hiQ Labs, which is still making its way through the appeals process.
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