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I can understand why some do not want scrapers - increased traffic (with practically zero benefits to the owners) is one obvious reason. (Some people will then
by TrackerFF 7y ago
I can understand why some do not want scrapers - increased traffic (with practically zero benefits to the owners) is one obvious reason.
(Some people will then say "But why not just offer APIs", but that's a lot of extra work and maintenance).
It's like with instagram and other social media platforms. The content creators put in the hard work, while the leeches are stealing content for their own benefit, giving zero credits to the original content creators.
- xnyan 7y agoThere’s a very effective way out, don’t your data on the public web.
- kerkeslager 7y ago[decided to delete because I misunderstood the context]
- deleted 7y ago[deleted]
- ppseafield 7y agoLet's not conflate a) a person's personal data, and b) a business's dataset. The GP and the article are clearly referring to the latter. Preventing web scraping won't protect users from businesses collecting their data.
- buboard 7y agoInstagram is not the content creator tho
- TrackerFF 7y agoWhat I'm trying to say is: For every popular content creator on IG, there are tens and hundreds of (more or less automatic) content curators that do nothing more than scrape content with lots of likes, and re-post on their own channels. Then when they get sufficient followers, they make money through paid product placements, account flipping, pay-to-play sharing, and what not. More often than not, there's no linking to the original pages / creators.