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LinkedIn is reviving a tool that lets you download your contact list the day after it quietly removed it to the frustration of many users.<\/p>\n

The site had shelved the feature on Friday and replaced it with a new option that bundles your contacts’ emails with an archive of every other file in your profile and takes up to three days to request, Venture Beat<\/em> first reported.<\/p>\n

The switch was made to thwart third-party services who were able to use the tool to scrape mass amounts of user contact information<\/p>\n

The site explained in a blog post on Saturday that it would turn the download back on until it was able to determine how to cut down the wait time for the profile archive bundle.<\/p>\n

“We\u2019ve heard you loud and clear \u2014 that is too long to have to wait for a download of connection information,” LinkedIn’s vice president of product management, Michael Korcuska said in the post. “Effective immediately, we have turned the CSV download link back on.”<\/p>\n

–<\/p>\n

Source: Mashable<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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