I guess how I feel is, if there are 50 new services that spring up overnight with different opt outs that would be annoying for people to deal with. If the webs

I guess how I feel is, if there are 50 new services that spring up overnight with different opt outs that would be annoying for people to deal with. If the website operator isn’t getting value out of the service they might just block you or put content behind an paywall and we all lose. =/ Also, the article claims the scraping generated so much traffic that it got reported to the owner as an attack. I’m not claiming anything other than what’s being reported. They should have at least throttled their application to reduce the load. If the owner didn’t notice the scraping we might not even be having this conversation.