I think it depends on the industry. I've worked at a few ecommerce companies and they all either bought data collected with scrapers or had a scraper team. They

I think it depends on the industry. I've worked at a few ecommerce companies and they all either bought data collected with scrapers or had a scraper team. They also paid for bot protection on their website to stop other companies from scraping their data. I have no problem with this, as ultimately consumers get more competitive and usually lower prices. That is assuming that they are scraping a reasonable rate and not sending 500 requests a second. What does concern me is the other uses that scraping tools have. For example, what's to stop me from writing a bot specifically to fuck with a competitor's analytics and a/b testing?