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X updates its Terms to prohibit crawling/scraping of its data (stackdiary.com)
submitted 1 year ago by skilledtothegills@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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But what if you do? Will you get caught?

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[–] thepianistfroggollum@lemmynsfw.com 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Accessing the website is often viewed as accepting the terms, so that wouldn't hold up. Not that they'd have a legal standpoint on the issue.

[–] NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Accessing the website is often viewed as accepting the terms

The scraping bot can't read the terms

But even if it could, it wouldn't give a damn :-)

[–] mojo@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

By reading this message you agree to my terms that I'm really cool

[–] eskimofry@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago

Lol and you username

[–] TheEntity@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

How do you read the terms without accessing their website?