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> Preventing web scraping is good for privacy. You will need to elaborate on that.
by nibbleshifter 4y ago
> Preventing web scraping is good for privacy.
You will need to elaborate on that.
- gattilorenz 4y agoI assume the OP means that scraping is used to collect public data, including that of individuals, which can even be linked across different websites. There’s at least a couple of services that try to connect somebody’s Instagram account to their FB/Twitter/LinkedIn etc. I assume some of those rely on scraping (+username checking), since the TOS for the APIs of those social networks probably prohibit this use case.
- charcircuit 4y agoYes, big datasets of user data can be created and sold. This user data can be joined across multiple sites to build up profiles on people. These datasets floating around can harm the reputation of a site.