Sorry but there are many legitimate reasons to scrape a website. Price manipulation is one example. Because of scraping we know Amazon does things like price go

Sorry but there are many legitimate reasons to scrape a website. Price manipulation is one example. Because of scraping we know Amazon does things like price gouging and raising prices right before they go on “sale”. Scraping can be very useful for researchers to monitor trends and find correlations. It’s not just about bad guys stealing personal information. There are far to many legitimate uses that banning scraping would be a bad thing.