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Yes! OP is being super condescending. And thus far, this amazing new paradigm in stealing recipes and posting them elsewhere on the internet isn't working as we

• dylan604 4y ago
  As much as I hate mommy blogs, these recipe aggregators are absolutely ignoring copyright. I would love to have an option other than mommy blogs. I would more than love this. If a recipe site that just presented the recipe and avoided the blog part was created for people to submit recipes, I'd be a huge fan. But all of these scrapers are just absolutely not something I can support based on the fact they are stealing other people's information.
  • guhidalg 4y ago
    I just want to clarify that CookTime is not an aggregator, it is exactly what you are asking for: a recipe website where people submit recipes, no blogs.
    • xypage 4y ago
      The issue is it's still going to end up doing some aggregating second hand as users copy recipes they've found on other websites to CookTime, it won't be the website itself doing it but I'd imagine they're still liable to legal action for serving those recipes, and could be asked to take them down under a threat of fines.
      • dylan604 4y ago
        I'd expect they'd receive Section 230 protection from user generated content if it is truly user submitted versus raw web scraping. The "fun" thing would be to growth hack your site by web scraping and then having that data posted under fake/bot accounts. Even more protection if you actually have bots from outside the company do it so there's some reasonable deniability. This is my level of pessimism from startup websites now.