Stop appearing in people search
Open Settings, go to Privacy, and switch off Searchable profile. It is on by default. Once it is off, your profile stops being returned when somebody searches for people by name or username.
What people search is
Alongside listing results, Jinu can match a search against members by display name or by username. It is how a buyer finds a seller again when they remember the name but not the item. It matches on part of a name, so searching "mar" finds "Marisol" and "@marcus_t".
What turning it off does
- You stop being returned in people search results.
- You stop appearing in the suggested sellers strip.
What it does not do
This is the important part, because the setting is narrower than the name suggests.
- Your profile page still works. Anyone with your link, jinu.app/yourname, still opens it. The setting removes you from a search, it does not lock a door.
- Your listings are still in the marketplace. They appear in browse and in search, and each one names you as the seller and links to your profile. Anybody looking at your listing is one tap from your profile whatever this setting says.
- People who already follow you still see you.
- Search engines are a separate matter. A public profile that Google has already indexed does not vanish from Google because of a toggle here.
If your goal is to be genuinely hard to find
Combine the settings, because no single one does it.
- Turn off Searchable profile, in Privacy, so nobody can look you up by name.
- Turn off Public seller profile, in Buying and selling, so your listings stop appearing on your profile, in browse and in search.
- Turn off Activity status, in Messages and interactions, so your last-active time is not shown.
- Consider changing your display name to something that is not your full legal name. Nothing requires it to be.
Blocking one specific person
Do not use this setting for that. Block them instead, from their profile or from the conversation. A block stops messages and offers in both directions, which is what you actually want, and it does not cost you discovery with everybody else.