"Inspect element" shows that the eye belongs to:

    <div class="loader"></div>

I think it's meant to be a placeholder animation that goes away when the content is available rather than a cryptic visual for users with an ad blocker. It's definitely a weird net effect.

Whitelisting licdn.com fixes it. If dig deeper and check the ublock origin logger, it looks like it's trying to load https://snap.licdn.com/li.lms-analytics/insight.min.js, and if it's blocked the page never loads.

Completely in line with modern design philosophy, though. Why use words when you can use a mysterious hieroglyph?

Especially since it breaks alt-left-arrow for "back".