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It's strange they write about this so openly. Aren't they wary that someone at Google Fights will read it and they will try blocking them? (E.g. by scrambling
by dmortin 6y ago
It's strange they write about this so openly. Aren't they wary that someone at Google Fights will read it and they will try blocking them? (E.g. by scrambling the page's code)
- tpmx 6y agoYou're supposed to break rules and laws in the early days; it's part of the startup lore. Blogging about it publicly, as they're doing it: that may appear newish, but I'm sure some other startup did that 15 years ago.
- meritt 6y agoGoogle doesn't need to block them on a technical level, they just need to send a simple C&D. If Brisk keeps scraping without permission after that, they can look forward to financially a ruinous legal battle [1]. Or they could just not blog about what they're doing and fly under the radar for years and years without any concern. [1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/09/victory-ruling-hiq-v-linkedin-protects-scraping-public-data https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/09/victory-ruling-hiq-v-l...
- z6 6y agoThis isn't really anything new that Google isn't aware of.
- thinkloop 6y agoI don't think it's possible to "scramble" a site to be unscrapeable - it has to render at some point.