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What a sneaky wording. > fetches Amazon’s price for products that users see on Walmart.com, Target.com and elsewhere. To me that reads: "we will turn your com
by bostik 7y ago
What a sneaky wording.
> fetches Amazon’s price for products that users see on Walmart.com, Target.com and elsewhere.
To me that reads: "we will turn your computer to a node in our scraping botnet". I would guess the internal documents they have will refer to this as market research, but the fact remains that this sounds like a botnet under construction.
- user17843 7y agoIt doesn't sound like scraping. What they do is they fetch the prices for their own products when the users browses a competitor. The prices of their competitors' products are already in the open, they won't need them. What they need is the browsing history of their customers in order for whaterver they want to better understand about the shopping process.