No, the transcript does not mention whether the data extraction method works differently for users with private versus public profile settings.
This video demonstrates how to obtain unlimited LinkedIn data for free using two tools: "scrapetable.com" and "appify." The process involves using appify to scrape LinkedIn URLs based on specified keywords, then importing those URLs into scrapetable to extract profile data.
appify (for gathering LinkedIn URLs) and scrapetable.com (for extracting data from those URLs).scrapetable.com has a limit of 50 URLs per search.