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My point is that you don't have to accept anything.

• nkozyra 18d ago
  Sure. But then you don't get credentials and can't scrape.
  • lazide 18d ago
    Even if you get the credentials via middle man?
  • stymaar 18d ago
    You keep saying that but unless company start doing KYC there's absolutely no link between auth and ToS. The authentication mechanisms used by websites don't have a specific legal power, it's just a POST request among other GET requests sent during scraping. And we have jurisprudence saying scrapping is legal no matter what the ToS of the website says, because the scraping entity never signed up the contract. The only protection against scrapping that auth is giving you isn't a legal one, it's a technical one (you can detect and ban the scraping user account).
    • cuu508 18d ago
      *scraping