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Things are a little different here in China. The government just published a law that if you scraping traffic is more the one third of the total traffic of a we
by ospider 7y ago
Things are a little different here in China. The government just published a law that if you scraping traffic is more the one third of the total traffic of a website, it is considered illegal.
- meritt 7y agoWhoa. Do you have a link to the legislation or news?
- severine 7y agoIt doesn't reference that measure explicitely, but you might find this article interesting. China’s Draft Data Security Measures and How They Compare to the GDPR: https://www.natlawreview.com/article/china-s-draft-data-security-measures-and-how-they-compare-to-gdpr https://www.natlawreview.com/article/china-s-draft-data-secu...
- Mirioron 7y agoI hope there's some kind of minimum there or some warning system, because you might not know what a third of a specific website is. On the other hand, this kind of a rule seems somewhat sensible, because it prevents web scraping from ballooning the costs of the service.