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I mean... if you scrape someone's website and they block you, it's totally legit. This article is fairly biased in the way it portrays the situation. Conduent
by amingilani 9y ago
I mean... if you scrape someone's website and they block you, it's totally legit. This article is fairly biased in the way it portrays the situation.
Conduent isn't blocking Propel from "fighting poverty", they're just keeping them from scraping their sites and launching a competing product.
- lucio 9y agoHmmm... but unless I'm misunderstanding something here, Conduent "clients" are not voluntary "clients", and Conduent "product" is literally taxpayers' money, so there's a case for the data to be public and access regulated and open.
- amingilani 9y agoOfcourse, and that's definitely a good case for them to fight over. However, as it stands, it's a lot like Amazon blocking scrapers from giving price recommendations.
- josefresco 9y agoPropel is not scraping, and the Conduent app came after the Propel app.
- amingilani 9y agoThe Propel app is a digital “skin” that works on top of the websites of food stamp contractors, like Conduent This sounds a lot like scraping to me. And sure, Conduent's app came _after_ Propel, but that's what I meant. They're trying to compete with Propel using their own app, which uses the data they already have.