We built Extrovert with account safety as our top priority. We're a third-party tool, so we take extra steps to make sure your LinkedIn activity through Extrovert looks like normal LinkedIn activity. Here's how it works.
How Extrovert connects to LinkedIn
You can connect your LinkedIn account in two ways, and both are secure by design:
Chrome extension (recommended) — connects using your existing LinkedIn session in Chrome
Email and password — we create a new LinkedIn session from your selected country, like logging in from a different device
Full walkthrough: 🔗 How to connect your LinkedIn account to Extrovert.
Why the Chrome extension is safe to install
You may have heard that LinkedIn can detect third-party extensions. That's partly true — so here's the full picture.
LinkedIn maintains a database of thousands of known automation extensions and uses a fingerprinting technique to detect them: their page scripts quietly check for specific files that those extensions expose. If a match shows up, LinkedIn knows the extension is installed and may flag the account.
The Extrovert extension is built differently. It doesn't expose the files that fingerprinting technique looks for, so from LinkedIn's side, the extension is invisible. Your browser looks like a normal user browser.
Why the email and password method is safe
When you use email and password, Extrovert creates a new, separate LinkedIn session — the same way signing in from your phone, your work laptop, or a different browser would. LinkedIn users create new sessions all the time and LinkedIn expects that.
The new session uses an IP from the country you select, so the location matches a sensible sign-in pattern
We don't store your password and only use it once to log in
If you have 2-step verification turned on, we still can't log in without the code from your email, SMS, or app — so your 2FA stays effective
You can revoke Extrovert's access at any time directly from LinkedIn — 🔗 manage your LinkedIn sessions. You don't even need to open Extrovert to do it
☝️ Pro tip: We recommend turning on 🔗 LinkedIn's 2-step verification regardless of which method you use. It's good hygiene for any online account.
Safety measures that apply no matter how you connect
These protections kick in whether you use the Chrome extension or email and password:
All commenting and liking happens during your normal 🔗 working hours
We add random delays between actions so activity looks natural
We help you stay within 🔗 LinkedIn's daily limits, with separate controls for comments and likes
Extrovert isn't a fire-and-forget automation tool — you approve every comment and DM before anything is posted
We don't use your account to enrich prospect data or fetch posts
Using Extrovert with other LinkedIn tools
You can run Extrovert alongside other LinkedIn tools, but be mindful:
Respect LinkedIn's daily limits across all tools combined, not per tool
Don't stack too many tools on the same account at once — stack risk goes up fast
Is Extrovert an official LinkedIn tool?
No — we're not affiliated with LinkedIn. We're a third-party tool that helps you engage with your network. That said:
We use the safest connection methods we know how to build
You control every action — nothing is posted without your approval
You can remove Extrovert's access at any time, directly from LinkedIn
95% of the LinkedIn tools you already know (big logos too) are also third-party. Some are just less transparent about how they connect