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The irony is Meta have a draconian stance against site scrapers, and have been known to sue over it. Yet they go and do this. Which is much worse than just scr
by x3sphere 3y ago
The irony is Meta have a draconian stance against site scrapers, and have been known to sue over it.
Yet they go and do this. Which is much worse than just scraping public pages.
- nycdatasci 3y agoExactly. Here's a great example of them criticizing NYU for researching political influence & advertising on the Meta platform: "Research Cannot Be the Justification for Compromising People’s Privacy" https://about.fb.com/news/2021/08/research-cannot-be-the-justification-for-compromising-peoples-privacy/ https://about.fb.com/news/2021/08/research-cannot-be-the-jus...
- immibis 3y agoThat's why Cory calls it "adversarial interoperability". All's fair in love and war, and all that. They play dirty, so should we.