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The rationale I've seen elsewhere is that it saves money. It means you don't need to go to the effort of downloading, storing and updating your copy of the data
by fzeroracer 1y ago
The rationale I've seen elsewhere is that it saves money. It means you don't need to go to the effort of downloading, storing and updating your copy of the database. You can offload all of the externalities onto whatever site you're scraping.
- danielbln 1y agoMan, these companies have bazillions in funding and they can't keep some $100 DB in a closet for that. Smh
- solarkraft 1y agoThey could. There’s just no upside in doing so.
- walterbell 1y agoIf they destroy the relatively high-trust internet, the low-trust replacement will require digital ID for every client, with non-neutral traffic price varying by {business digital ID, content}. No more free geese, even to check whether there is a golden goose worthy of payment. https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/web/WeShouldBlockForSocialReasons?showcomments https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/web/WeShouldBlockFo...