Cloud-based - using a tool via the cloud. Despite some citing a dedicated IP address when you go cloud-based, for example, LinkedIn can still easily detect these tools. They operate from the cloud in which they are stored rather than from your LinkedIn account on your standard browser, and activities carried out in such a mode can be detected by LinkedIn with ease. When a program runs through the browser in a ‘headless’ mode, it does not have a graphical user interface.
This means that LinkedIn can ultimately detect you are using your LinkedIn account from a headless browser.
Browser-based – although you can’t run the tool 24/7 (which let’s face it, no human would do anyway), as activity occurs in the browser it makes it difficult for LinkedIn to distinguish an automation tool from a ‘real’ user. With browser-based tools, you are working within your native LinkedIn account, on your browser, and provided your use continues to mimic human behaviour, then your activity levels will not alert LinkedIn.
So, as LinkedIn perceives that you are using your account through a standard web browser, it cannot detect automation tools.
