> I think it's going to be harder for academic researchers to get institutional approval to scrape adversarially This is a good point about what might happen,

> I think it's going to be harder for academic researchers to get institutional approval to scrape adversarially This is a good point about what might happen, but it seems worthwhile to address and fix directly. Personally I don't see why adversarial scraping of a publicly published website should require any more ethical consideration/review than using the suggested API would. Ethical concerns should revolve around humans, not the business desires of non-human entities.