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Maybe instead of selling scraping to end users, invert the problem and sell data to AI companies: 1. Pay users to install a browser extension that scrapes soci
by echelon 2y ago
Maybe instead of selling scraping to end users, invert the problem and sell data to AI companies:
1. Pay users to install a browser extension that scrapes social media content they browse. Or ask them in exchange for a service, e.g. "remember everything I browse and make it searchable", etc.
2. Ship the data you scrape to your servers.
3. Sell training data to companies at a discount.
This gets past the new rate limiters and blocks that Reddit and others have installed.
- roywiggins 2y agoThat's like 90% of the way to "free" VPNs that actually rent out your IP address to spiders, those have been around for ages. What if we gave people some service, say a "browser toolbar", and in exchange we sell their browsing data to third parties? You just reinvented spyware from first principles. This is basically BonziBuddy.