LinkedIn "People Also Viewed": The Toggle Was Removed in 2024

If you've been searching for the setting that lets you hide the "Viewers of this profile also viewed" sidebar on your LinkedIn profile, you won't find it. LinkedIn quietly removed the toggle in early 2024. Every profile now shows the section, with no option to disable it.

This article covers what the feature actually does, why LinkedIn made it permanent, and what you can still do to keep visitors focused on your profile instead of clicking away.

What Changed in Early 2024

Until early 2024, LinkedIn offered a toggle under Settings & Privacy > Account Preferences labeled "Viewers of this profile also viewed." Turning it off prevented the sidebar from appearing on your profile and removed your profile from appearing in others' sidebars.

LinkedIn removed this setting without a formal announcement. The toggle is no longer present in Account Preferences, and there is no alternative location for the control. As of now, the "People Also Viewed" sidebar is permanent on all LinkedIn profiles.

What the Feature Does

When someone visits your LinkedIn profile, a sidebar appears on the right side of the page showing up to five other profiles they may want to view. LinkedIn builds these suggestions using collaborative filtering: job title, industry, company, location, and the viewing patterns of members with similar professional backgrounds.

In practice, this means a prospect who lands on your profile may immediately see a list of your direct competitors. For salespeople and consultants, that's the main concern. For job seekers or anyone building passive inbound visibility, there's a reciprocal benefit: your profile gets surfaced on similar pages, which can generate connection requests from people you haven't reached out to directly.

What You Can Still Control

You can't remove the sidebar, but you can make your profile strong enough that visitors don't feel compelled to leave. A few things that keep people on your page longer:

• A specific headline. Generic titles ("Sales Professional" or "Marketing Expert") give visitors no reason to stay. Name your niche, your outcome, or your audience.
• An About section that reads like a person wrote it. Short paragraphs, a clear point of view, and a concrete description of who you help and how. See our LinkedIn About section examples for reference.
• Featured content that shows your work. Posts, case studies, tools, or writing that gives a visitor something to engage with directly on your page.
• Active posting. Visitors who recognize your content from their feed already have context before they arrive. That familiarity keeps them on your profile longer and makes them more likely to connect.

The sidebar is outside your control. The quality of what visitors find when they arrive is not.

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