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In Reddit's case data scraping is soon to be against the Terms of Service (which is already the case for Twitter), which will earn you a Cease and Desist if you
by minimaxir 3y ago
In Reddit's case data scraping is soon to be against the Terms of Service (which is already the case for Twitter), which will earn you a Cease and Desist if you try to make a business off the data.
- sebzim4500 3y agoThen don't sign in? See the LinkedIn legal precident, ToS only applies to scrapers if the scraper had to 'click' the agree button in order to sign up.
- minimaxir 3y agoYou're still going to get a Cease and Desist. You might have better odds in court with a precedent but you'll still be out legal fees.
- berkle4455 3y agoSo the AI companies secretly scraping the data and without producing a direct attribution or affiliation are precisely the ones unaffected by this, meanwhile devs trying to make complementary tooling (and thus fully public who they are and thus targets of C&D’s) are negatively impacted. What a lovely model.
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