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"We prohibit crawling, scraping, caching or otherwise accessing any content on the Service via automated means" ... "You must not create or submit unwanted em
by fenwick67 6y ago
"We prohibit crawling, scraping, caching or otherwise accessing any content on the Service via automated means"
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"You must not create or submit unwanted email, comments, likes or other forms of commercial or harassing communications (a/k/a "spam") to any Instagram users."
- yaseer 6y agoOkay, I agree this a grey and perhaps questionable area. This seemed to be something legitimate people/users were doing a lot, so we gave them a building block to make it easier. Maybe we should have thought about it more. We'll take a step back from that path if our bots become a nuisance on social media. In all honesty, we built axiom with other things in mind (e.g. Repetitive data entry and admin).
- alwayseasy 6y agoIt's not grey it's a TOS violation. Facebook goes after these types of bots ruthlessly, especially in election season. I'd recommend not poking that bear, you have so many market opportunities!
- yaseer 6y agoOkay, we'll take this on board! It was honestly just some user requests we integrated without enough thought, not something nefarious. This isn't our market by any means.
- fenwick67 6y agoNo, we disagree because it's pretty black and white. It wasn't hard to Ctrl+f for "like" and "automat" in the TOS. Your team needs to do better.
- yaseer 6y agoLook, we've changed position and agree with you. The point I thought was 'grey' was whether automated likes harass people (Liking to build a following is now part of the standard Instagram marketing playbook). That is not worth debating though - we agree that TOS are violated. We were wrong and you are correct.