I crawled a few social media platforms that do not offer accessible APIs as an experiment. I mimicked user behavior, I even occasionally bypassed google's noCha

I crawled a few social media platforms that do not offer accessible APIs as an experiment. I mimicked user behavior, I even occasionally bypassed google's noChapta (although that could have been just pure luck) on a few sites. Seeing what people put in their bios, what their network looks like, their posts and all the metadata, its incredibly what amount of user data is pretty much out there in public. Seeing that this is just the tip of the iceberg in terms of what companies like Facebook are collecting, all those stories about algorithms predicting pregnancies before the people themselves know about it seem much more realistic. The main think holding people back from mass creating accounts to spam social media (even more) are chaptas, and those can be outsourced to chapta farms somewhere in the world.