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Yes. I want a free and open web.
by iandanforth 4y ago
Yes. I want a free and open web.
- xvector 4y agoGood for you. Normal people do not want posts shared privately amongst friends to become publicly available.
- falcolas 4y agoThen why would you ever put it on a website that generates its revenue from using and selling your data?
- nathanaldensr 4y agoBecause you're (not you, but people in general) are dumb and overly trusting.
- marlowe221 4y agoThis is the correct answer.
- blantonl 4y agoBecause you agreed to do so under the terms of conditions of that website.
- nlh 4y agoLook I understand you point from a legal standpoint, but do you really truly believe even a small fraction of FB and IG users actually “agreed to do so under the terms and conditions of that website”? They just clicked whatever was necessary to create their accounts. I doubt there was much affirmative agreement going on there.
- Nextgrid 4y agoThere's no evidence the scraper companies mentioned there are making the scraped data public or sharing it with anyone beyond the individual customer that is already entitled to access that data through the official clients.
- orangecat 4y agoThen you need to trust your friends, because copy/paste and screenshots exist.