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> You may not ... use the content of the Site for public or commercial purposes That's not what the app was doing: > The app ... had been ‘screen scraping’ ac
by tantalor 5y ago
> You may not ... use the content of the Site for public or commercial purposes
That's not what the app was doing:
> The app ... had been ‘screen scraping’ accounts for members
So it wasn't "public or commercial", it was for people who had accounts to view/manage their account details.
Same as Plaid or Mint for banks, or (more generally) any old web browser for literally any website.
- ceejayoz 5y agoIt was absolutely "for commercial purposes" for The Points Guy.
- maxmorlocke 5y agoAnd where did TPG enter into a commercial relationship or affirmatively agree to these terms?
- ceejayoz 5y agoWhen they started shilling AA's cards on their site for referrals, I suspect. https://thepointsguy.com/card-hub/citi-aadvantage-executive-world-elite-mastercard/ https://thepointsguy.com/card-hub/citi-aadvantage-executive-...
- tantalor 5y agoI would take "for commercial purposes" to mean aggregating the data for wholesale, or offering some kind of analytics service across users. Whereas showing ads in the same client where the user is also viewing their own data is incidental. The purpose is to provide a useful intermediary service, and the ads help pay for that service, in much the same way a search engine can reproduce data from websites and show ads at the same time.