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Good take, IMO ethically speaking we should not penalize scrapers themselves but do so based on their use. Scraping Facebook to make a clone of profiles should
by digitcatphd 5y ago
Good take, IMO ethically speaking we should not penalize scrapers themselves but do so based on their use.
Scraping Facebook to make a clone of profiles shouldn’t be held to the same scrutiny of scraping Facebook to do an internal analysis of user demographics for research purposes.
- ForHackernews 5y agoWhy should either be discouraged?
- zamadatix 5y agoCloning profiles is what seems likely wrong to me but I'm not sure how that being done via scraping or not should matter.
- antonf 5y agoWith cloned profiles (or any data obtained and shared without your consent) it will be harder for you to exercise your right to be forgotten, for example.