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Per HiQ vs. LinkedIn, it doesn't matter what their ToS says if the scraper didn't have to agree to the ToS to scrape the data. YouTube will serve videos to some
by nerdsniper 1y ago
Per HiQ vs. LinkedIn, it doesn't matter what their ToS says if the scraper didn't have to agree to the ToS to scrape the data. YouTube will serve videos to someone who isn't logged in. So if you've never agreed to YouTube's ToS, you can scrape the videos. If YT forced everyone to log in before they could watch a video, then anyone who wants to scrape videos would have had to agree to the ToS at some point.
- olyjohn 1y agoIt won't serve me videos if I'm not logged in. It tells me to sign in to prove I'm not a bot. How do these people get around this?
- nerdsniper 1y agoIt does for me, in USA on AT&T Fiber using Safari in private browsing mode. Chrome in incognito as well. And phone on mobile YouTube (though I didn't test with uninstalling/reinstalling to reset IDFA and IDFV, so it's not really a valid test)